At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
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.
Summary
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq names him with no recorded end. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him among Banu Sahm in "the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants". 1
Tribe
Connections
- Member of
- Banu Sahm
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
- Traveled to
- Aksum
People and things also explored
Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet· Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Bishr ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi· Mahmiyya ibn al-Jazu'· Ma'mar ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi· Qays ibn Hudhafa· Ramla bint Abi Awf· The second migration to Abyssinia
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/8
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Harith ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-harith-ibn-al-harith-sahmi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-12.