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The Second Emigration to Abyssinia

The far larger party, some eighty men with their families, who followed Ja'far ibn Abi Talib RA to Abyssinia and stayed, many of them until 7 AH.

The Second Emigration to Abyssinia

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  • The Year of Delegations - Part 1Episode 94

    Fatima bint Qays, who is one of the sahabiyyat who had Emigrated to both Abyssinia and Madinah, i.e., she is a Sahibat al-Hijratayn.

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  • Sirat Ibn Ishaq

    The total number of those who migrated to Abyssinia, apart from the little children whom they took with them or were born to them there, was eighty-three men if 'Ammar b. Yasir was among them, but that is doubtful.

    Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah (Guillaume): the full list of both waves precedes this total.

  • Sahih al-Bukhari

    We got on board a ship which took us to An-Najashi in Ethiopia, and there we found Ja`far bin Abu Talib and his companions with An-Najaishi.

    classical-texts/hadith bukhari idInBook 3007 (Abu Musa al-Ash'ari RA).

  • The Second Migration to AbyssiniaEpisode 17

    Who will venture to the battlefield to witness the outcome, so that we can leave if needed?" And Zubayr ibn al-Awwam volunteered.

    Umm Salama RA's account of the civil war in Abyssinia.

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  • The Second Migration to AbyssiniaEpisode 17

    When the Muslims heard this, 40% if not 50% of them got together and said let us go to Abyssinia. And that is a huge number.

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  • Sirat Ibn Ishaq

    Abu Salama b. 'Abdu'l-Asad ... with his wife Umm Salama d. Abu Umayya b. al-Mughira. . . . She bare him a daughter, Zaynab, in Abyssinia.

    Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah (Guillaume), the full list of emigrants to Abyssinia.

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  1. Abdullah ibn Hudhafah al-Sahmi RA
    Companion
  2. Abdullah ibn Jahsh RA
    Companion
  3. Abdullah ibn Mas'ud RA
    Companion
  4. Abdullah ibn Suhayl ibn Amr RA
    CompanionQuraysh
  5. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari RA
    Companion
    Reached Abyssinia by ship from Yemen
  6. Abu Salama RA
    CompanionBanu Makhzum
    Also in the first emigration
  7. Abu Ubaydah Amir ibn al-Jarrah RA
    Companion
  8. al-Miqdad RA
    Companion
  9. Al-Sukran ibn Amr RA
    Companion
  10. Asma bint Umays RA
    Companion
  11. Ayyash ibn Abi Rabi'ah RA
    Companion
  12. Fatima bint Qays RA
    Companion
  13. Hisham ibn al-As RA
    Companion
  14. Ja'far ibn Abi Talib RA
    Companion
    Spoke for the Muslims before the Najashi · leader
  15. Khalid ibn Sa'id ibn al-As RA
    CompanionQuraysh
  16. Khunays ibn Hudhafah RA
    Companion
  17. Salama ibn Hisham RA
    Companion
  18. Sawda bint Zam'a RA
    Companion
  19. Umm Habiba Ramla bint Abi Sufyan RA
    Companion
  20. Umm Salama RA
    CompanionBanu Makhzum
    Also in the first emigration
  21. Utbah ibn Ghazwan RA
    Companion
  22. Zubayr ibn al-Awwam RA
    Companion
    Also in the first emigration