Firas ibn al-Nadr
فراس بن النضر
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 second after Abu al-Rum of Banu Abd al-Dar, tracing his lineage to 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 name is garbled in the OCR scan; it was read "Firas ibn al-Nadr" from the page image of p. 7 (compare: al-Nadr ibn al-Harith ibn Kalada of Abd al-Dar).
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
Abu al-Rum ibn UmayrAmr ibn JahmJahm 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. “Firas ibn al-Nadr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/firas-ibn-al-nadr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.