Cheraman Perumal Rama Varma Kulashekhara, king of Kerala that time went to a Madina to meet Prophet Mohammed and embraced Islam. On his way back he died of sickness and buried in Zafar (now Salalah) in Sultanate of Oman.Salalah, the historic port city of Oman, has the distinction of having the tomb of the first Indian to embrace Islam.