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>>43193
I've seen this being thrown around on half-chan the past year, so I looked into this before. But what the half channers are implying is flawed, especially since it works on 2 assumptions:
>Arabs, (especially Arabs 1400 years ago) were white
>That "black" in the Arabic linguistic and cultural context of the time refers to black African that we refer to now.
I found this site before that did a good job at explaining it, white and light skin amongst arabs at the time was actually the exception, it was rare, darker skin, and 'jet black' skin was more of the norm. https://alajamwalarab.com/my-wifes-given-birth-to-a-jet-black-skinned-child/
So in this case, the issue was about the baby being dark skinned, not about the baby being black as in African, when we put it into perspective of todays western context. Now that we have the context its not out of the realm of possibility that this dark skinned trait could be hidden or recessive inheritance of the parents genes. This rather shows the complex understanding of heredity that our Prophet (SAW) had.
Compare this to people who would disown their child or kill them and their wife just because the kid has a different hair colour, like thats where the term "red headed step child" comes from, because they didn't understand that red hair is a recessive trait that can be hidden in the lineage, so they'd instead automatically assume its not his child.
