Umm Harmala bint Abd al-Aswad
أم حرملة بنت عبد الأسود
Wife of Jahm ibn Qays; 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 Jahm ibn Qays; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and perished there. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names her as Jahm ibn Qays's wife and says she perished in the land of Abyssinia. 1
Tribe
She belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Abd al-Dar 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- She is not named in the list of the sixteen women (pp. 10-11) despite being mentioned here; the count of women does not reconcile neatly with everyone listed in the earlier sections.
Connections
- Spouse of
- Jahm ibn Qays
- Member of
- Banu Abd al-Dar
- Died in
- Aksum
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
People and things also explored
Amr ibn Jahm· Khuzayma ibn Jahm· Jahm ibn Qays· Abu al-Rum ibn Umayr· Firas ibn al-Nadr· Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· Aksum· The second migration to Abyssinia
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/5
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