Identity Of The First Male Muslim
There is some disagreement among Muslims, and among historians of Islam, as to the identity of the first male convert to Islam after Muhammad.
The early historian Ibn Ishaq puts Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, first; Tabari presents three candidates, and does not decide between them. One account in Tabari says that the first male convert was Zayd ibn Harithah, a freed slave who had become Muhammad's adopted son. Other accounts say that it was Abu Bakr, a man of standing among Meccans and a distant kinsman of Muhammad as well as good friend, who was the first convert.
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