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 "id": "person/abdullah-ibn-jahsh",
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 "slug": "abdullah-ibn-jahsh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "عبد الله بن جحش",
  "en": "Abdullah ibn Jahsh"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من السابقين، حليف بني عبد شمس؛ هاجر إلى الحبشة وشهد بدراً، وبعثه النبي إلى نخلة، ويروى أنه كان أول أمير في الإسلام وأن أول راية عُقدت له؛ استشهد بأحد ودُفن مع حمزة في قبر واحد، ولقبه الزبير بن بكار «المجدع في الله».",
  "en": "One of the earliest Muslims and an ally of Banu Abd Shams; he emigrated to Abyssinia and fought at Badr; the Prophet sent him to Nakhla, and reports say he was the first commander in Islam and the first to be given a banner; he was killed at Uhud and buried in one grave with Hamza, and al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar says he was nicknamed 'the one mutilated for God'."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles",
  "converts-and-leavers"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "عبد الله بن جحش بن رئاب (رياب) بن يعمر الأسدي، حليف بني عبد شمس"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 5008 (ص 850).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "ذُكر في كتب الصحابة؛ يُسجَّل ضمن الإطار السني للمتحف (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة، ترجمة 5008، ص 850",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-6"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 850, entry 5008)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/abdullah-ibn-jahsh|عبد الله بن جحش]] بن رئاب بن يعمر الأسدي، حليف بني عبد شمس، «أحد السابقين» كما يقول ابن حجر، وقال ابن حبان: له صحبة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.850}. وقال ابن إسحاق: هاجر إلى [[event/first-migration-to-abyssinia|الحبشة]] وشهد [[event/battle-of-badr|بدراً]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.850}. وروى البغوي أن النبي آخى بينه وبين [[person/asim-ibn-thabit|عاصم بن ثابت]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.850}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أول أمير في الإسلام",
     "markdown": "روى البغوي عن سعد بن أبي وقاص أن النبي بعثهم في سرية وقال: «لأبعثن عليكم رجلاً أصبركم على الجوع والعطش»، فبعث عليهم عبد الله بن جحش «فكان أول أمير في الإسلام»، وروى السراج عن زر بن حبيش أن أول راية عُقدت في الإسلام كانت لعبد الله بن جحش {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.850}. وقال ابن إسحاق إن النبي بعثه إلى نخلة، وللتفصيل [[event/expedition-of-nakhla|سرية نخلة]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.850}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "شورى أسرى بدر",
     "markdown": "روى زكريا الساجي من حديث أبي عبيدة بن عبد الله بن مسعود عن أبيه أن النبي استشار أبا بكر وعمر وعبد الله بن جحش في أسارى بدر، وأخرجه أحمد {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.851}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "أحد ودعاؤه",
     "markdown": "روى البغوي من طريق إسحاق بن سعد بن أبي وقاص عن أبيه أن عبد الله بن جحش قال له يوم أحد: «ألا تأتي فندعو؟» فدعا سعد أن يلقاه رجلاً شديداً يقاتله ويقتله، فأمّن عبد الله ثم قال: «اللهم ارزقني رجلاً شديداً حرده أقاتله فيك حتى يأخذني فيجدع أنفي وأذني»، قال سعد: «فكانت دعوة عبد الله خيراً من دعوتي، فلقد رأيته آخر النهار وإن أنفه وأذنه لمعلق في خيط» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.851}. قال الزبير: كان يقال له «المجدع في الله» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.851}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "السيف",
     "markdown": "قال الزبير: انقطع سيفه يوم أحد فأعطاه النبي عرجوناً فصار في يده سيفاً، فكان يسمى «العرجون»، وبقي هذا السيف حتى بيع من بغا التركي بمئتي دينار {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.851}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "استشهاده",
     "markdown": "قال ابن أبي حاتم: دعا الله يوم أحد أن يرزقه الشهادة فقُتل بها، وكان قاتله أبو الحكم بن الأخنس بن شريق، ودُفن هو و[[person/hamza|حمزة]] في قبر واحد، وكان له يوم قتل نيف وأربعون سنة {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.851}. روى عنه سعد بن أبي وقاص وسعيد بن المسيب {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.851}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abdullah-ibn-jahsh",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/abdullah-ibn-jahsh|Abdullah ibn Jahsh]] ibn Ri'ab ibn Ya'mar al-Asadi, ally of Banu Abd Shams; \"one of the earliest\", as Ibn Hajar says, and Ibn Hibban said he was a Companion {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 850}. Ibn Ishaq said he emigrated to [[event/first-migration-to-abyssinia|Abyssinia]] and witnessed [[event/battle-of-badr|Badr]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 850}. Al-Baghawi relates that the Prophet paired him in brotherhood with [[person/asim-ibn-thabit|Asim ibn Thabit]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 850}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The first commander in Islam",
     "markdown": "Al-Baghawi relates from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas that the Prophet sent them on a detachment saying \"I will set over you a man most steadfast of you against hunger and thirst\", and set Abdullah ibn Jahsh over them — \"so he was the first commander in Islam\"; al-Sirraj relates from Zirr ibn Hubaysh that the first banner bound in Islam was Abdullah ibn Jahsh's {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 850}. Ibn Ishaq said the Prophet sent him to Nakhla — see [[event/expedition-of-nakhla|the Nakhla detachment]] for the detail {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 850}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Badr captives' counsel",
     "markdown": "Zakariya al-Saji relates from Abu Ubayda ibn Abdullah ibn Mas'ud from his father that the Prophet consulted Abu Bakr, Umar and Abdullah ibn Jahsh about the Badr captives; Ahmad also recorded it {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 851}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Uhud and his prayer",
     "markdown": "Al-Baghawi relates through Ishaq ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas from his father that Abdullah ibn Jahsh said to him on the day of Uhud: \"shall we not go and pray?\" Sa'd prayed to meet a fierce man who would fight and kill him; Abdullah said amen, then prayed: \"O God, grant me a fierce, hardened man whom I fight for You until he takes me and cuts off my nose and ears.\" Sa'd said: \"Abdullah's prayer was better than mine — I saw him at day's end, his nose and ear hanging by a thread\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 851}. Al-Zubayr said he was called \"the one mutilated for God\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 851}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The sword",
     "markdown": "Al-Zubayr said: his sword broke on the day of Uhud and the Prophet gave him a palm-branch which became a sword in his hand — it was called \"the Palm-Branch\" and survived until it was sold among the estate of the Kharijite al-Bagha al-Turki for two hundred dinars {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 851}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "His martyrdom",
     "markdown": "Ibn Abi Hatim said: he prayed to God on the day of Uhud to grant him martyrdom and was killed there; his slayer was Abu al-Hakam ibn al-Akhnas ibn Shariq. He and [[person/hamza|Hamza]] were buried in one grave; he was forty-some when killed {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 851}. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas and Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab relate from him {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 851}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abdullah-ibn-jahsh",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
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  "person/musab-ibn-umayr",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/utba-ibn-ghazwan",
  "person/muhammad",
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