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Uthman ibn Talhah

عُثْمَان بْن طَلْحَة

ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah

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Biography

ʿUthmān ibn Ṭalḥah, of Banū ʿAbd al-Dār, held the hereditary key of the Kaʿbah, one of the great honors of Quraysh. Alongside Khālid ibn al-Walīd he witnessed the surge of conversions in the wake of ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ, and on the night Khālid decided to leave Mecca rather than risk his life for hesitating, ʿUthmān joined him. The two departed together and met ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ on the road back from Abyssinia; all three arrived in Medina together and embraced Islam before the Prophet , becoming, with Khālid and ʿAmr, the last prominent conversions before the Conquest of Mecca.

Significance

His conversion, carrying with it the symbolic custodianship of the Kaʿbah, alongside Khalid's military standing and Amr's political standing, signaled that Quraysh's religious, military, and political leadership had all turned to Islam at once.

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