Suhayb Ar-Roomi, or Suhayb bin Sinan, actually came from a very noble family. his dad was an arab named Sinan bin Malik. One day, his mother took him outside for a picnic. While they were picnicking, some raiders came through and took Suhayb. The Raiders were Byzantinian/Roman, and they brought him to Rome, where he was sold as a slave. He stayed there so long that he had a roman accent! After some time, he was sold into Mecca to a man named Abdullah bin Jad'an, who freed him. So Suhayb started a business and got some money, and heard of Muhammad SAW and became Muslim. When the Muslims migrated to Madinah, Suhayb went too, but the men of Quraysh followed him and held him back. In one narration, it said he drew forty arrows, and said he would shoot all of them, and if they didn't die, (the Quraysh men) then he would draw his sword and show them the man he was. in another narration, he asked if he gave them all his wealth, would they let him go? They agreed, and he gave them his money and traveled to Madinah.
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