Iyad ibn Zuhayr
عياض بن زهير
Of Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia — the third of the three men Ibn Ishaq names from Banu al-Harith among the rest of the emigrants.
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 al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia — third of the three men Ibn Ishaq names of Banu al-Harith among the rest of the emigrants. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him among Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr in "the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants", tracing his descent to Zuhayr ibn Abi Shaddad. 1
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
Al-Harith ibn Abd QaysSa'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), 4/10
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Iyad ibn Zuhayr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/iyad-ibn-zuhayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.