Umm Kulthum bint Suhayl
أم كلثوم بنت سهيل
Of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; Ibn Ishaq names her among the women 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 Amir ibn Lu'ayy; Ibn Ishaq names her among the Abyssinian emigrant women. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names her among the Abyssinian emigrant women of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy, tracing her to Suhayl ibn Amr. 1
Tribe
She belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy 1
Source notes and markers of doubt
- The text does not state she is Sahla's sister; the two are simply both daughters of Suhayl ibn Amr, so sisterhood is an inference from the shared lineage.
Connections
- Sibling of
- Sahla bint Suhayl
- Member of
- Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy
- Child of
- Suhayl ibn Amr
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Sahla bint SuhaylAbu Hatib ibn AmrUmra bint al-Sa'diFatima bint al-MujallalMalik ibn Rabi'aSalit ibn AmrReturn of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi TalibAksum
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/11
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Umm Kulthum bint Suhayl”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umm-kulthum-bint-suhayl/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.