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• The Rightly Guided CaliphsThe four Companions who led the Muslim community in turn after the Prophet ﷺ died.
• The Ten Given Glad TidingsTen Companions named together in a well-known report as having been given glad tidings of Paradise.
• The Early MuslimsThose who accepted Islam in the first years, in Makkah, when doing so was dangerous and the community was very small.
• The MuhajirunThe Emigrants — those who left Makkah and migrated to Madinah for the sake of their faith.
• The AnsarThe Helpers — the people of Madinah who received the emigrants and shared what they had with them.
• Great Narrators and TeachersCompanions through whom a great deal of what later generations learned was transmitted.
• Those Who Opposed Him FirstCompanions who fought, mocked or plotted against the Prophet ﷺ before accepting Islam.
• The Mothers of the BelieversThe wives of the Prophet ﷺ, whom the Qur'an calls mothers of the believers.

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• He did not ask for proofAbu Bakr as-SiddiqMakkah, in the earliest days of Islam, when the Muslims could still be counted on your fingers.
• The day Umar changed sidesUmar ibn al-KhattabMakkah, during the years when being a Muslim meant being in danger.
• He bought a well and gave the water awayUthman ibn AffanMadinah, in the years after the Hijrah, when the town's water was privately owned.
• He slept in the bed they were watchingAli ibn Abi TalibMakkah, the night the Prophet ﷺ left for Madinah, with the house under watch.
• The questions kept comingAishah bint Abi BakrMadinah, in the decades after the Prophet ﷺ died.
• The two waistbandsAsma bint Abi BakrMakkah, during the three nights the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr were hidden in the cave of Thawr.
• One wordBilal ibn RabahMakkah, in the years when enslaved Muslims had nobody to protect them.
• Sent ahead to MadinahMus'ab ibn UmayrYathrib, in the year or two before the Hijrah.

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