{
 "id": "person/tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi",
 "label": {
  "en": "al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi",
  "ar": "الطفيل بن عمرو الدوسي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A noble chief and renowned poet of the Daws tribe who arrived in Mecca around the eleventh year of prophethood; warned against listening to Muhammad, he stuffed his ears with cotton but upon hearing the recitation at the Kaaba embraced Islam, later calling his entire tribe to the faith.",
  "ar": "سيد قبيلة دوس وشاعرها الشريف الملقب بذي النور؛ حذّرته قريش من النبي فحشا أذنيه كرسفاً، حتى سمعه يصلي عند الكعبة فاستمع لكلامه وأسلم، ودعا قومه باليمن حتى قدم بهم مسلمين بخيبر. وفي الصحيح أنه قال للنبي «إن دوساً قد هلكت عصت وأبت فادع الله عليهم» فقال «اللهم اهد دوساً وائت بهم» {cite:sahih-al-bukhari 4392}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "converts-and-leavers",
  "literature"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "الطفيل بن عمرو الدوسي"
   },
   {
    "kind": "laqab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "ذو النور"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "poet",
   "notable"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0620~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "أسلم بمكة في أواخر سنة 11 من النبوة (الرحيق ص134-135).",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0620~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0620~"
    },
    "note": "صحابي جليل من سادات دوس."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 134-135"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "إسلامه في مكة (الرحيق المختوم ص133–134)",
     "markdown": "قدم مكة في السنة الحادية عشرة من البعثة، فحذره أهلها من النبي وقالوا إن قوله كالسحر، فحشا أذنيه بالقطن ثم سمع بعض كلامه، فعرض عليه النبي الإسلام وتلا عليه القرآن فأسلم، وطلب أن يجعل له الله آية، فكانت آيته نوراً في وجهه ثم انتقل إلى سوطه، ثم أسلم أبوه وزوجته، وهاجر بعد الخندق ومعه سبعون أو ثمانون بيتاً من قومه، واستشهد يوم اليمامة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.133} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.134}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-15"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Islam in Mecca (The Sealed Nectar pp.133-134)",
     "markdown": "He came to Mecca in the eleventh year of the mission. The people of Mecca warned him about the Prophet and said that his speech was like magic. He stuffed his ears with cotton, but then he heard some of his words. The Prophet offered him Islam and recited the Qur'an to him, and he became Muslim. He asked that God give him a sign. His sign was a light on his face, which then moved to his whip. Later his father and his wife became Muslim. He emigrated after the Battle of the Trench with seventy or eighty households of his people, and he was martyred on the day of Yamama. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.133} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.134}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "مکہ میں ان کا اسلام (الرحیق المختوم ص133–134)",
     "markdown": "وہ نبوت کے گیارہویں سال مکہ آئے تو وہاں کے لوگوں نے انہیں نبی سے خبردار کیا اور کہا کہ ان کی بات جادو کی طرح ہے۔ انہوں نے کانوں میں روئی ٹھونس لی، پھر کچھ کلام سن لیا۔ نبی نے انہیں اسلام پیش کیا اور قرآن پڑھ کر سنایا تو وہ مسلمان ہو گئے، اور اللہ سے نشانی مانگی، تو ان کی نشانی یہ ظاہر ہوئی کہ ان کے چہرے پر نور نمودار ہوا، پھر وہ ان کے کوڑے کی طرف منتقل ہو گیا۔ پھر ان کے والد اور بیوی مسلمان ہوئے، اور خندق کے بعد وہ ستر یا اسی گھرانوں کے ساتھ ہجرت کر گئے، اور یمامہ کے دن شہید ہوئے۔ {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.133} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.134}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-15",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "place/yemen",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "converted_under",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0620~"
   },
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/dhimad-al-azdi",
  "event/ali-expeditions-to-yemen",
  "event/ali-judgment-three-men-one-tuhr",
  "event/mission-of-muadh-to-yemen",
  "passage/muwatta-1-534",
  "passage/muwatta-2-596",
  "passage/muwatta-3-698",
  "passage/muwatta-6-927"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}