Amr ibn Jahm
عمرو بن جهم
Son of Jahm ibn Qays; he accompanied his father to Abyssinia and arrived with him 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
Son of Jahm ibn Qays; he accompanied his father to Abyssinia and arrived with him in the two ships. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Abd al-Dar 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- Ibn Ishaq counted Jahm and those with him as one "man" in the sixteen's total (p. 5); a separate count of the sons is therefore not assured.
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Abd al-Dar
- Child of
- Jahm ibn Qays
- Sibling of
- Khuzayma ibn Jahm
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Jahm ibn QaysKhuzayma ibn JahmUmm Harmala bint Abd al-AswadReturn of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi TalibAksumAbu al-Rum ibn UmayrFiras ibn al-NadrBanu Abd al-Dar
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/5
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islam.museum contributors. “Amr ibn Jahm”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/amr-ibn-jahm/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.