1. ‘Abd Allāh ibn Salām was a Jew who converted to Islam. He initially concealed the matter from his fellow Jews and went to the Prophet requesting that Muhammad ask about him among the Jews so that Muhammad could see what position he held in their community before they learned of his conversion. The sultan of Tunis is pleased and flattered because Anselmo has placed him in the same position that the Prophet had occupied. See Ibn Hishām, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Isḥāq's Sīrat Rasūl Allāh, trans. Alfred Guillaume (London: Oxford University Press, 1955), 240–42. [BACK]