Abu al-Rum ibn Umayr
أبو الروم بن عمير
Of Banu Abd al-Dar; Ibn Ishaq names him among the rest of the emigrants to Abyssinia.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Of Banu Abd al-Dar; Ibn Ishaq names him among the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him first of two men of Banu Abd al-Dar in "the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants", tracing him to Umayr ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf ibn Abd al-Dar. 1
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Abd al-Dar 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- The line carrying his lineage is garbled in the OCR scan; it was re-read from the page image of p. 7.
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Abd al-Dar
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Amr ibn JahmFiras ibn al-NadrJahm ibn QaysKhuzayma ibn JahmUmm Harmala bint Abd al-AswadThe second migration to AbyssiniaAbdullah ibn al-Harith the PoetAbdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/7
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Rum ibn Umayr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-al-rum-ibn-umayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.