Urwa ibn Abd al-Uzza

عروة بن عبد العزى

Aksum

Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; he emigrated to Abyssinia and died there.

Depth

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
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In space

Aksum

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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 Adi ibn Ka'b; he emigrated to Abyssinia and perished there. 1

In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter

Ibn Ishaq names him among Banu Adi in "the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants", saying he perished in the land of Abyssinia. 1 He lists him again among the dead — he and Adi ibn Nadla count among the seven who perished. 2

Tribe

He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Adi ibn Ka'b 1

Source notes and markers of doubt

  • The OCR dropped some letters of his lineage; the lineage was established from the page image p. 9 (Abd al-Uzza ibn Hurthan ibn Awf ibn Ubayd ibn Uwayj).

Connections

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Member of
Banu Adi ibn Ka'b
Died in
Aksum
Participated in
Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib

People and things also explored

Adi ibn Nadla· Al-Nu'man ibn Adi· Layla bint Abi Hathma· Ma'mar ibn Abdullah ibn Nadla· The second migration to Abyssinia· Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet· Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/9
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/10
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Related

Adi ibn Nadla

Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his son al-Nu'man and died there.