Al Miqdaad ibn al-Aswad* describes the conditions under which the sahaba were living at this time in this account related by Abu Na'im in al-Hilyyah:
"By Allah, none of the previous Prophets was sent into more difficult conditions than the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He was a time of profound weakness and ignorance when people could not have imagined the existence of a religion better than the worship of idols.
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*One of the early converts to Islam. He was a calvaryman at Badr and died in 33 AH. Some have said that he was seventy when he lived in a place in a place called Jarf, about three miles from Madinah, where he was taken to be buried.
Source:Source: al-Walaa' wal Baraa' according to the Aqeedah of the Salaf, Muhammad Saeed al-Qahtani
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