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The opponents

Umayyah ibn Khalaf

أمية بن خلف

A Makkan chief who owned Bilāl رضي الله عنه and tortured him in the sun.

Where they appear

  1. Going public — and the persecution

    Tortured Bilāl رضي الله عنه until Abū Bakr رضي الله عنه bought his freedom.

How it ended

Killed at Badr.

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3852; ar-Raḥīq al-Makhtūm, al-Mubārakpūrī