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The Negus carries the emigrants to the Prophet in two ships

حمل النجاشي مهاجري الحبشة إلى النبي في سفينتين

c. 628 CE · c. 7 AH

Aksum → Khaybar

Ibn Ishaq says: those of the Prophet's Companions who remained in Abyssinia stayed until the Prophet sent Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to the Negus, who carried them in two ships and brought them to him at Khaybar after al-Hudaybiyya. The total who arrived in the two ships was sixteen men, and with them were carried wives of Muslims who had died there.

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At a glance

Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
Review
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In time

610620630640

In space

AksumKhaybar

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Summary

Ibn Ishaq says the Prophet's Companions who had remained in the land of Abyssinia stayed there until the Prophet sent Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to the Negus; the Negus carried them in two ships and they came to the Prophet while he was at Khaybar, after al-Hudaybiyya. 1

Who was in the two ships

Ibn Ishaq enumerates those who came in the two ships by their clans — sixteen men in all. 2

With them were "women of the wives of the Muslims who had died there", in his wording. 3

The clans named in the two ships: Banu Hashim, Banu Abd Shams, Banu Asad, Banu Abd al-Dar, Banu Zuhra, Banu Taym, Banu Jumah, Banu Sahm, Banu Adi, Banu Amir, Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr. 2

The journey

See the return of the Abyssinian emigrants to Khaybar. Ibn Ishaq names neither the port nor the journey's route. 1

The numbers

The chapter's closing lists gather thirty-four men who missed Badr, arrived afterward, or were not carried by the Negus in the two ships, and sixteen women among the emigrant women. 4

Connections

Occurred at
AksumKhaybar
Had participant
MuhammadAmr ibn Umayya al-Damrithe Negus of Aksum
Part of
Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
Has part
The emigrants' return from Abyssinia to Khaybar

People and things also explored

The second migration to AbyssiniaReturn of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi TalibThe first migration to AbyssiniaJa'far ibn Abi Talib comes before the Prophet at KhaybarRuqayya bint MuhammadUmm Habiba Ramlah bint Abi SufyanUmm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)Muhammad

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/3
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/3-5
  3. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/5
  4. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/10
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The second migration to Abyssinia

When torture intensified after the first migrants' brief return, eighty-three men — Ammar's inclusion doubtful — and eighteen or nineteen women migrated again to Abyssinia; Quraysh sent Amr ibn al-As and Abdullah ibn Abi Rabi'a to win them back, but the Negus heard Ja'far ibn Abi Talib's account and sura Maryam, refused to surrender them, and returned the envoys' gifts.