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 Makhzum; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was killed at Ajnadayn in the caliphate of Abu Bakr. 1
In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter
Ibn Ishaq names him first of three men of Banu Makhzum among "the rest of the emigrants to Abyssinia", saying he was killed at Ajnadayn in the land of Syria in Abu Bakr's caliphate. 1
In al-Isaba
Ibn Hajar gives him his own entry in al-Isaba, no. 8987: "Habbar ibn Sufyan (may God be pleased with him) ibn Abd al-Asad ibn Hilal ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Makhzum al-Makhzumi, nephew of Salama ibn Abd al-Asad"; he records that Musa ibn Uqba — from Ibn Shihab, Abu al-Aswad, Urwa and Muhammad ibn Ishaq — listed him among the emigrants to Abyssinia, and that he was martyred at Ajnadayn; so too said Abu Khalifa in al-Mubtada, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Qaddami in al-Futuh, and Muhammad ibn Sa'd. 2
His transmission
Al-Isma'ili in his Mu'jam of the Companions and al-Khatib in al-Mu'talif transmit through his son — Yahya ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Habbar, from his father — who said: "The Messenger of God passed…" his hadith. 2
Tribe
He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Makhzum 1
Connections
- Sibling of
- Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi
- Member of
- Banu Makhzum
- Died in
- Ajnadayn
- Participated in
- Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
People and things also explored
Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi· Amr ibn Sa'id ibn al-As· Hisham ibn Abi Hudhayfa· Sa'id ibn Amr al-Tamimi· Zaynab bint Abi Salama· Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)· Aksum
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/7
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p.1537
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Habbar ibn Sufyan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/habbar-ibn-sufyan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.