Journey To Medina
In Afghan tradition, Qais was born in the Ghor region of Afghanistan. Upon hearing about the advent of Islam, his tribe sent him to Medina in Saudi Arabia. He met the Islamic prophet Muhammad and embraced Islam there, and was given the name Abdur Rashid by Muhammed. He then returned to the region of Afghanistan and introduced Islam to his tribe. In legend the famous military leader and companion of Muhammed, Khalid ibn al-Walid, introduced Qais Abdur Rashid to the Prophet.
The Afghan historians proceed to relate that the children of Israel, both in Ghore and in Arabia, preserved their knowledge of the unity of God and the purity of their religious belief, and that on the appearance of the last and greatest of the prophets (Mohammed) the Afghans of Ghore listened to the invitation of their Arabian brethren, the chief of whom was Khauled (or Caled), son of Waleed, so famous for his conquest of Syria, and marched to the aid of the true faith, under the command of Kyse, afterwards surnamed "Abdul Rasheed".However, the account in which the Afghans were introduced to Muhammad by Khalid ibn al-Walid is probably without any historical foundation according to scholars like Thomas Walker Arnold.
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