Abd Allah ibn Suhayl

Abdallah ibn Suhayl ibn Amr — Abu Suhayl — his mother Fakhita bint Amir ibn Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf, a Companion among the emigrants to Abyssinia, who took the pledge of safety for his father on the day of the Conquest, and was martyred at al-Yamama aged eighty-eight ¹.

Ibn Ishaq names him among the emigrants to Abyssinia, and Ibn Manda transmits with his chain to Ibn Abbas: "and among those who emigrated to Abyssinia was Abdallah ibn Suhayl ibn Amr"; al-Baladhuri says his companionship is agreed ¹. Al-Waqidi says his father seized him after he returned from Abyssinia and made him renounce his faith, so he outwardly recanted and marched out with them to Badr — then fled to the Muslims; he was afterwards one of the witnesses at the truce of al-Hudaybiyya, was older than his brother Abu Jandal, and it was he who obtained the safe-conduct for his father on the day of the Conquest; Suhayl used to say after that: God has granted much good to my son in Islam ¹. Al-Baghawi transmits from Ibn Shihab and from Ibn Ishaq the story of his flight from his father at Badr: he was with his father, left him and crossed over to the Muslims and stayed with them ¹.

He was asked about the three times of privacy (the 'awrat), as in the Maghazi of A'idh from al-Zuhri from Tha'laba ibn Abi Malik who asked Abdallah ibn Suhayl al-Harithi ¹. This Abdallah was martyred at al-Yamama — or, it is said, at Jawatha in Bahrayn — aged eighty-eight years ¹. Ibn Manda made him two separate entries, though he is the brother of Abu Jandal and son of Suhayl ibn Amr ibn Abd Shams ².

Abdallah ibn Suhayl was a Companion who emigrated to Abyssinia; his father Suhayl ibn Amr then forced him to recant, he went out with his father's people to Badr and fled to the Muslim ranks, witnessed the truce of al-Hudaybiyya, obtained safety for his father on the day Mecca was conquered, and was martyred later at al-Yamama.

• His two al-Isaba entries are nos. 5222 and 5223 (al-Maktaba al-Asriyya scan, pp. 892–893); Ibn Manda split him into two while others preferred he is one man.
• The place of martyrdom has two reports: al-Yamama, or Jawatha in Bahrayn; his age eighty-eight as per the text.