Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh was the brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh

Zaynab bint Jahsh

Zaynab bint Jahsh was a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers. Prior to this, she was briefly married to Muhammad's adopted son, Zayd ibn Harithah...

, Hammanah bint Jahsh

Hammanah bint Jahsh

Hammanah bint Jahsh or Hamnah was the sister of Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh, Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh and Zaynab bint Jahsh, one of Muhammad's wives. She was niece of Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib. She was married to the Mus`ab ibn `Umair who was killed in the battle of Uhud...

 and Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh

Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh

Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh , also called Abdu ibn Jahsh, was a cousin and companion of Muhammad.'-Embrace Islam:As Jahsh and his son Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh embraced Islam, whole of their clan embraced Islam....

. He is one of the four monotheistic

Monotheism

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 hanif

Hanif

Hanif is a term that refers to those who maintain the pure monothestic Muslim beliefs of the patriarch Ibrahim. More specifically, in Islamic thought it refers to the people during the period known as the Age of Ignorance, who were seen to have rejected idolatry and retained some or all of the...

s mentioned by Ibn Ishaq

Ibn Ishaq

Muḥammad ibn Isḥaq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār was an Arab Muslim historian and hagiographer...

. The others being Waraqah ibn Nawfal

Waraqah ibn Nawfal

Waraka Ibn Nawfal was the parental cousin of Khadija, the first wife of the prophet Muhammad, and was also the son of Muhammad's great-grandfather Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf's half brother Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf...

, Uthman ibn Huwarith and Zayd ibn Amr.

He was married to Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan

Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan

Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan, رملة بنت أبي سفيان, aka Umm Habiba, أم حبيبة, was the daughter of Abu Sufyan. She was born c. 589 and died in 666...

 (who was also known as Umm Habiba Ramla). They had a daughter named Habibah bint Ubayd-Allah.

He and his wife became Muslim

Muslim

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s and, in order to escape from the Mecca

Mecca

Mecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...

n persecution, they emigrated to Abyssinia

Migration to Abyssinia

The migration known as the first Hijarat was made in two groups totalling more than a hundred persons. According to Islamic tradition, eleven male and five female Sahabah, the Muslims who originally converged in Mecca, sought refuge from Quraysh persecution in the Kingdom of Aksum in of in the...

. At Axum

Axum

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, part of the Aksumite Empire

Aksumite Empire

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 the Christian

Christian

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 king, Aṣḥama ibn Abjar

Ashama ibn Abjar

According to Arabic sources, Aṣḥama ibn Abjar was Emperor or al-Najashi of Aksum at the time of Muhammad, and gave refuge to several Muslims in the Kingdom of Aksum. The term "al-Najashi" has the variant al-Negashi; it corresponds to the ancient Aksumite title Negus, with the variant Negash...

, gave sanctuary to the Muslims. There Ubayd-Allah eventually converted to Christianity

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 and testified his new faith to the other Muslim refugees. Ibn Ishaq relates:
Due to his conversion, he was divorced from his wife. He eventually died in Abyssinia

Ethiopia

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.

Later on the Islamic prophet

Prophets of Islam

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 Muhammad

Muhammad

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 married his former wife, Ramlah bint Abu Sufyan and later on his sister, Zaynab bint Jahsh.

See also

• Obaidullah (name)
• Jahsh (name)
  Jahsh (name)
  Jahsh is an Arabic male given name.Jahsh means Mule in Arabic, it has not been used as a name for many years.-list:*Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh*Abd-Allah Jahsh*Zaynab bint Jahsh*Abdu ibn Jahsh*Hammanah bint Jahsh...