Fatima bint Safwan
فاطمة بنت صفوان
Wife of Amr ibn Sa'id ibn al-As, of Kinana; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and died there.
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
Wife of Amr ibn Sa'id ibn al-As, of Kinana; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and perished there. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Tribe
Connections
- Spouse of
- Amr ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
- Member of
- Kinana
- Died in
- Aksum
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
People and things also explored
Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi TalibThe second migration to AbyssiniaAbdullah ibn al-Harith the PoetAbdullah ibn Hudhafa al-SahmiAbdullah ibn Sufyan al-MakhzumiAbu al-Rum ibn UmayrAbu Hatib ibn AmrAdi ibn Nadla
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/4
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/11
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islam.museum contributors. “Fatima bint Safwan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatima-bint-safwan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.