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Overview
'Umar sent 'Alqama b. Mujazziz al-Mudliji against Abyssinia — which had been raiding the lands of Islam — and the Muslims were struck hard; 'Umar bound himself never again to carry anyone by sea, meaning for raiding 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Abyssinia (Aksum)
- Had participant
- Alqama ibn Mujazziz al-Mudliji· Umar ibn al-Khattab
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The seven ahruf· Abu al-Mukhtar's Satire on the Ahwaz Officials· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness· The conversion of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb· Abu Sufyan's mission to Medina· Abu Ubayd's Dispatch to Iraq· al-Ahnaf's Petition to Umar for Basra· Ali's counsel in Umar's judgments
Sources
- al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 387
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islam.museum contributors. “Alqama ibn Mujazziz's expedition against Abyssinia (20 AH)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/alqama-abyssinia-raid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.