List of non-Arab Sahabah

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Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was an Arab from the Banu Hashim of the Quraysh. During his time as a religious prophet in Arabia, the people who were physically in his presence as his closest friends and disciples are known as the Sahabah (lit. 'Companions'), many of whom were not from the Arabian tribes. The inclusion of non-Arab ethnicities among the Sahabah, and among the early Muslims as a whole, contributed to the definition of Islam's nature as a universal religion instead of an ethnic religion. The following is a list of non-Arab Sahabah during the 7th century.