Al-Aswad ibn Nawfal
الأسود بن نوفل
A Companion of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships.
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
A Companion of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him alone of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza in the two ships. 1
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza 1
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Amr ibn UmayyaYazid ibn Zam'aThe second migration to AbyssiniaAbdullah ibn al-Harith the PoetAbdullah ibn Hudhafa al-SahmiAbdullah ibn Sufyan al-MakhzumiAbu al-Rum ibn UmayrAbu Hatib ibn Amr
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/5
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Aswad ibn Nawfal”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-aswad-ibn-nawfal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.