Mu'ayqib ibn Abi Fatima
معيقيب بن أبي فاطمة
An emigrant to Abyssinia who arrived in the two ships; he was Umar ibn al-Khattab's keeper of the Muslims' treasury, and his tie was to the family of Sa'id ibn al-As.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
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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
An emigrant to Abyssinia who came in the two ships; he was Umar ibn al-Khattab's keeper over the Muslims' treasury, and his tie was to the house of Sa'id ibn al-As. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him fourth of four men of Banu Abd Shams in the two ships. 1 He describes him as Umar ibn al-Khattab's keeper over the Muslims' treasury, and as being "to the house of Sa'id ibn al-As" — that is, in their clientship or tie; the book expressed it with a preposition and said no more. 1
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Abd Shams 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- The nature of his tie to the house of Sa'id ibn al-As (ally or client) is not stated in the text; we have not presumed it.
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Abd Shams
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
The 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 NadlaAl-Aswad ibn Nawfal
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/4
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islam.museum contributors. “Mu'ayqib ibn Abi Fatima”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muayqib-ibn-abi-fatima/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.