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النجاشي (أصحمة)
Ashamah, the Christian king of Abyssinia, who gave the persecuted Muslims of Makkah a safe home and refused to hand them back to Quraysh. He came to believe in the Prophet ﷺ without ever meeting him, and when he died the Prophet ﷺ called him "your brother" and led the funeral prayer for him from Madinah.
d. c. 9 AH / 630 CE, in Abyssinia
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