At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
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Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Refugees, migrants and diaspora
Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was killed at al-Yamama in the caliphate of Abu Bakr. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him among Banu Sahm in "the rest of the emigrants to Abyssinia", saying he was killed at al-Yamama in Abu Bakr's caliphate. 1
In al-Isaba
Ibn Hajar gives him his own entry in al-Isaba, no. 10476: "Abu Qays ibn al-Harith (may God be pleased with him) ibn Qays ibn Adi ibn Sa'd ibn Sahm, the Qurashi: he was among the first to Islam and among the emigrants to Abyssinia; he witnessed Uhud and what came after; he is the brother of Abd Allah ibn al-Harith. All of that is recorded by Muhammad ibn Ishaq, and Abu Umar transmits from Muhammad ibn Ishaq that his name was Abd Allah ibn al-Harith." 2
Source notes and markers of doubt
- The name "Abu Qays" is unstable in transmission: Ibn Ishaq's maghazi copies agree that Abd Allah was his brother and that the recorded name is in fact a kunya; Ibn Hajar then carries the dispute about the man of this name in the story of the verse "do not marry women your fathers married" (4:22), where calling the speaker al-Aslat was said to be an error. The disagreement is kept as reported.
Tribe
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Sahm
- Died in
- al-Yamama
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
People and things also explored
Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet· Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Al-Harith ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi· Al-Sa'ib ibn al-Harith· Bishr ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi· Mahmiyya ibn al-Jazu'· Ma'mar ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi· Qays ibn Hudhafa
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/8
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p.1750
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu Qays ibn al-Harith”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-qays-ibn-al-harith/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.