بِلَالُ بنُ رَبَاح
Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habashi RA was an Abyssinian slave of Umayyah ibn Khalaf and one of the earliest converts in Makkah. Tortured on the burning sand under a rock, he refused to give his tormentors a word, repeating only "Ahad, Ahad", One, One, until Abu Bakr RA freed him. In Madinah the Prophet ﷺ chose him to call the adhan because of his voice, and he served as the Prophet ﷺ's muezzin for more than ten years. At Badr he saw his former master killed, and at the Conquest of Makkah he climbed onto the Ka'bah to give the first adhan ever called there.
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فَتَطْرُدَهُمْ فَتَكُونَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ
“If you were to reject them, you would be from the wrongdoers.”
This ayah (Q6:52) is the Qur'an's defense of poor believers like Bilal ibn Rabah RA against Abu Jahl's demand that they be expelled.
“Is there any reward for good other than good?”
This ayah's principle -- that good is repaid with good -- reflects Bilal RA's own reward: being chosen, after his steadfastness under torture, as the Prophet's ﷺ muezzin.