- Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh
Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh ( _ar. عبيدالله بن جحش) was the brother of
Zaynab bint Jahsh . He is one of the four monotheistic hanifs mentioned byIbn Ishaq . The others beingWaraqah ibn Nawfal ,Uthman ibn Huwarith andZayd ibn Umar .He was married to
Ramlah bint Abu Sufyan (who was also known as Umm Habiba Ramla). They had a daughter namedHabibah bint Ubayd-Allah .He and his wife became Muslims and, in order to escape from the Meccan persecution, they emigrated to Abyssinia, where the Christian king gave sanctuary to the Muslims. There Ubayd-Allah eventually converted to Christianity and testified his new faith to the other Muslim refugees. Ibn Ishaq relates:
Due to his conversion, he was divorced from his wife. He stopped following the Islamic prohibition of drinking alcohol, and eventually died in Abyssinia.
Later on
Prophet Muhammad married his former wife, and later on his sister,Zaynab bint Jahsh .References
* Guillaume, Alfred, "The Life of Muhammad", Oxford University Press, 1955, reprinted in 2003. ISBN 0-19-636033-1
ee also
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Ubayd-Allah (name)
*Jahsh (name)
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