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Banu Umayya ibn Abd Shams

بنو أمية بن عبد شمس

A clan of Quraysh; Ibn Ishaq lists it as 'Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf' and makes it a separate section of the Abyssinia emigration.

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Banu Umayya, a clan of Quraysh by their line 'Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf'; Ibn Ishaq brings them in the lists of the Abyssinia emigrants.

Banu Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf, a clan of Quraysh; Ibn Ishaq brings them by their line in the lists of the Abyssinia emigrants, counting among them in that chapter Umm Habiba bint Abi Sufyan of the women who migrated.

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Banu Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf, a clan of Quraysh; Ibn Ishaq brings this clan in the lists of the Abyssinia emigrants by its line 'Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf', counting of it in that chapter Umm Habiba bint Abi Sufyan among the women who migrated.

Summary

Ibn Ishaq lists this clan among the Abyssinian emigrants under the lineage "Umayya ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf". 1 2

Of this clan in the Abyssinian emigrants chapter

Abyssinian emigrant women:

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Abdullah ibn Abd al-Malik· Abu Sufyan ibn Harb· al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt· Habiba bint Ubaydullah· Marwan ibn al-Hakam· Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik· Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik (al-Khayr)· Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Umayya· Umm Habiba Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan· Umm Jamil· Uthman ibn Affan· Yazid ibn Mu'awiya
Allied with
Ubaydullah ibn Jahsh
Member of
Banu Abd Shams

People and things also explored

Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan· Umm Habiba Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan· Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· al-Walid ibn 'Uqba's dismissal from Kufa (30 AH)· Quraysh· Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan· Abu Sufyan ibn Harb· Habiba bint Ubaydullah

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/6
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/10
  • Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi
  • The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan

A Qurashi of the Umayyad clan, born five years before the mission on the best-known account; he accompanied the Prophet and wrote for him, Umar appointed him over Syria after his brother Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan and Uthman kept him there, then he did not pledge to Ali and fought him, took Syria for himself and added Egypt, took the title of caliph after the two arbitrators, and the people gathered on him in the year of the community when al-Hasan made peace with him; the time of his conversion is disputed.