Badhan (Persian governor)

Bādhān (in Arabic: باذان [bæːˈðæːn]; also Bādhām باذام [bæːˈðæːm] in Islamic historiography) was a Persian abna' leader and the Sasanian governor of Yemen during the reign of Khosrow II (r. 590–628). He became a Muslim and one of the disciples (Sahaba) of Islamic prophet Muhammad upon witnessing a prophecy of his come true in real time.

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