His name was Cassius Clay
Cassius Clay was his name
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Coming To America... Barbershop... "Muhammad Ali & Cassius Clay, Jr"
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Why don’t you like to be called “Clay” anymore?
Oh, Clay was not my name.
Once we follow the belief, hear the . . . understand the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and come into a knowledge of ourselves that we want to be called after names of our people, which are names to fit us black people.
And Clay was a white man’s name. It was a slave name. And I’m no longer Clay. I’m no longer a slave. So now I’m Muhammad Ali.
If Clay is a white name, I doubt Muhammad is much less so.
Sahih al-Bukhari, Number 63:
Narrated Anas bin Malik: While we were sitting with the Prophet in the mosque, a man came riding on a camel. He made his camel kneel down in the mosque, tied its foreleg and then said:
“Who amongst you is Muhammad?”
At that time the Prophet was sitting amongst us leaning on his arm.
We replied, “This white man reclining on his arm.”
Sahih Muslim 6071:
It was narrated from Al-Jurairi from Abu At-Tufail: “I said to him: ‘Did you see the Messenger of Allah?’
He said: ‘Yes, he was white with an elegant face.’”
This is Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, Muhammad's 34th grandson:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Shaykh_Muhammad_Al-Yaqoubi_%28cropped%29.JPG/512px-Shaykh_Muhammad_Al-Yaqoubi_%28cropped%29.JPG
In the Sudan, even to this day, Arabic-speaking Muslim East Africans hold Christian West African slaves:
The Society notes that the ruling Umma Party draws its support from the Baggara Arabs, whose militia is responsible for human rights violations that include slavery; that Khartoum, if not advocating racism, is effectively pursuing a racist policy in regard to its African population, in particular the Dinka; and that the Dinka people as a whole are being treated as an internal enemy and are considered synonymous with the SPLA.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/slavery-sudan share