Wikipedia's first sentence called it “companion of the islamic prophet muhammad”. Today it says “young christian slave who belonged to the banu i-hadrami tribe of mecca”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “A young Christian slave who belonged to the Banu i-Hadrami tribe of Mecca”. It now reads “Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad”.
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Jabr was a young Christian slave who belonged to the Banu i-Hadrami tribe of Mecca . Jabr was later called a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Accusations of informants contributing to Muhammad's recitations were made by his opponents. Jabr is identified by name in one account mentioned by Ibn Ishaq : The apostle used to sit at al-Marwa at the booth of a young Christian called Jabr, slave of Banu I-Hadrami, and they used to say; 'The one who teaches Muhammad most of what he brings is Jabr the Christian, slave of the Banu I-Hadrami. He is also identified by his kunya by Muqatil ibn Sulayman but called a Jew. This is an except glossed by Claude Gillot: There was a servant of ‘Amir b. al-Hadrami al-Qurashi. He was a Jew, not an Arab [or spoke bad Arabic, a‘jami]; he spoke Greek [more likely: Aramaic], and his name was Abu Fukayha Yasar.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
A young Christian slave who belonged to the Banu i-Hadrami tribe of Mecca , Jabr was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
A young Christian slave who belonged to the Banu i-Hadrami tribe of Mecca , Jabr was later called a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Accusations of informants contributing to Muhammad's recitations were made by his opponents.Jabr is identified by name in one account mentioned by 8th-century Quran story teller, Muqatil ibn Sulayman : The apostle used to sit at al-Marwa at the booth of a young Christian called Jabr, slave of Banu I-Hadrami, and they used to say; 'The one who teaches Muhammad most of what he brings is Jabr the Christian, slave of the Banu I-Hadrami.' Similar accounts mention a slave of the Banu I-Hadrami while not the name Jabr specifically.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Jabr was a young Christian slave who belonged to the Banu i-Hadrami tribe of Mecca , Jabr was later called a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Accusations of informants contributing to Muhammad's recitations were made by his opponents. Jabr is identified by name in one account mentioned by 8th-century Quran story teller, Muqatil ibn Sulayman : The apostle used to sit at al-Marwa at the booth of a young Christian called Jabr, slave of Banu I-Hadrami, and they used to say; 'The one who teaches Muhammad most of what he brings is Jabr the Christian, slave of the Banu I-Hadrami.' Similar accounts mention a slave of the Banu I-Hadrami while not the name Jabr specifically.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “companion of the islamic prophet muhammad”. Today it says “young christian slave who belonged to the banu i-hadrami tribe of mecca”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “A young Christian slave who belonged to the Banu i-Hadrami tribe of Mecca”. It now reads “Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad”. Read the current article and compare.
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companion of the islamic prophet muhammad
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young christian slave who belonged to the banu i-hadrami tribe of mecca
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