Al-Harith ibn Abd Qays
الحارث بن عبد قيس
A Companion of Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr; 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 al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr 1
Connections
- Member of
- Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Iyad ibn ZuhayrSa'd ibn Abd QaysUthman ibn Abd GhanmThe second migration to AbyssiniaAbdullah ibn al-Harith the PoetAbdullah ibn Hudhafa al-SahmiAbdullah ibn Sufyan al-MakhzumiAbu al-Rum ibn Umayr
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/5
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Harith ibn Abd Qays”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-harith-ibn-abd-qays/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.