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was not afraid to tell the people that a lot of what they were doing was not good.

She could not help but be puzzled why the news of this man claiming he was a prophet
was causing such an upheaval in her community. It did not enter her young, innocent
mind that it was because he was an Arab, a descendant of Ishmael, rather than a Jew, a
descendant of Isaac from whom her tribe hoped the prophet would come from.

Saffiyah was just ten years old when her father and uncle decided they should go to
Mecca to investigate what was actually going on. They hoped the stories they heard


were just rumors and unfounded. Both Huyay and his brother had studied their
scriptures and were familiar with the characteristics essential to the next prophet. They
were also knowledgeable of the signs which would accompany him.

When Huyay and his brother returned from Mecca, Saffiyah had been unable to
comprehend their reaction and even more so their state of depression. In the purity of
her heart, she had expected them either to return with the news that this man either
fulfilled or did not fulfill the conditions in the scriptures, but they were silent and their