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Al-ʿAlāʾ Al-Haḍrami ( ) was an envoy sent by the Muslim prophet Muhammad in the 7th century AD, to spread the message of Islam to the region that is now Bahrain and Qatar . Prior to Islam, the inhabitants of Qatar and Bahrain worshipped idol gods like Awal . Islam swept the entire Arabian region in the 7th century, overturning the idol worshippers. Prophet Muhammad sent his first envoy Al-Ala'a Al-Hadrami to Munzir ibn Sawa Al Tamimi , the ruler of Bahrain, which in those days, extended the coast from Kuwait to the south of Qatar including Al Hasa and Bahrain Islands, in the year 628 AD, inviting him to Islam. Munzir, responding to Muhammad's call announced his conversion to Islam and all the Arab inhabitants of Bahrain and Qatar including some Persians living in Qatar also became Muslim, heralding the beginning of the Islamic era in Bahrain and Qatar. Consequently, Al Ala Al-Hadrami was appointed by Muhammad as his representative in Bahrain to collect the Jizya (religious tax). Al-Ala' was also the ruler of the region from 633 until his death in 635. The letter from Muhammad to Munzir ibn Sawa Al Tamimi is preserved and can be seen at Beit Al Qur'an museum in Hoora , Bahrain, with the seal of Muhammad still intact.1
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Al-ʿAlāʾu l-Haḍramī ( ) was a Haḍramī envoy sent by Muhammad in the 7th century CE to spread Islam to the region that extends from Kuwait to Ras al-Khaimah .He was from Hadhramaut in Yemen .
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Al-ʿAlāʾ al-Haḍramī ( ) was a Haḍramī envoy sent by Muhammad in the 7th century CE to spread Islam to the region that extends from Kuwait to Ras al-Khaimah . He was from Hadhramaut in Yemen .
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7th-century Muslim commander and governor Al-Ala al-Hadrami ( ; died 635–636 or 641–642) was an early Muslim commander and the tax collector of Bahrayn (eastern Arabia) under the Islamic prophet Muhammad in c. 631–632 and Bahrayn's governor in 632–636 and 637–638 under caliphs Abu Bakr ( r. 632–634 ) and Umar ( r. 634–636 ).Under Abu Bakr, al-Ala suppressed a rebellion by a scion of the pro- Sasanian Lakhmid dynasty as part of the Ridda wars .Under Umar, he launched naval expeditions against the Sasanians, the last of which ended in disaster for the Arabs and was the cause of his dismissal.He was last appointed governor of Basra but died on his way there to assume office.
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7th-century Muslim commander and governor Al-Ala ibn al-Hadrami ( Arabic : العلاء بن الحضرمي , romanized : al-ʿAlāʾ ibn al-Haḍramī ; died 635–636 or 641–642) was an early Muslim commander and the tax collector of Bahrayn (eastern Arabia) under the Islamic prophet Muhammad in c. 631–632 and Bahrayn's governor in 632–636 and 637–638 under caliphs Abu Bakr ( r. 632–634 ) and Umar ( r. 634–636 ). Under Abu Bakr, al-Ala suppressed a rebellion by a scion of the pro- Sasanian Lakhmid dynasty as part of the Ridda wars . Under Umar, he launched naval expeditions against the Sasanians, the last of which ended in disaster for the Arabs and was the cause of his dismissal. He was last appointed governor of Basra but died on his way there to assume office.
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