Tag: Waraqa

  • Waraqa ibn Nau­fal and the Chris­t­ian Polemics

    Waraqa ibn Nau­fal and the Chris­t­ian Polemics

    In an arti­cle of his, Jochen Katz has made much of the nar­ra­tives about Waraqa ibn Nau­fal, and has con­jec­tured on his alleged influ­ence on Prophet Muham­mad’s(P) reli­gious thought. Fol­low­ing is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive extract of his said article : Waraqa lived in Mec­ca and prob­a­bly Muham­mad has met him long before his mar­riage to Khadi­ja already, but…