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Hisham ibn Abi Hudhayfa

هشام بن أبي حذيفة

Aksum

Of Banu Makhzum; Ibn Ishaq names him among the emigrants to Abyssinia. Ibn Abd al-Barr, cited in the editors' margin, reports that al-Waqidi says 'Hashim ibn Abi Hudhayfa'.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia · East Africa & Swahili coast
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In space

Aksum

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Refugees, migrants and diaspora

Place in the story

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Sunni (transmitted)

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Summary

Of Banu Makhzum; Ibn Ishaq names him among the Abyssinian emigrants — and in the editors' note Ibn Abd al-Barr mentions al-Waqidi's saying "Hashim ibn Abi Hudhayfa". 1

In the Abyssinian emigrants chapter

Ibn Ishaq names him third of three men of Banu Makhzum in "the rest of the Abyssinian emigrants", as "Hisham ibn Abi Hudhayfa (may God be pleased with him) ibn al-Mughira". 1 The editors transmit in the note, from Ibn Abd al-Barr's Isti'ab, that al-Waqidi calls him "Hashim ibn Abi Hudhayfa", that Ibn Abd al-Barr counts "Hisham" an error, and that Musa ibn Uqba and Abu Ma'shar did not mention him among the emigrants to Abyssinia. 1

Tribe

He belongs, per Ibn Ishaq, to Banu Makhzum 1

Source notes and markers of doubt

  • A name disagreement: Hisham (Ibn Ishaq) or Hashim (al-Waqidi); and neither Musa ibn Uqba nor Abu Ma'shar mentions him among the Abyssinian emigrants — this is from the editors' note citing the Isti'ab (p. 7), and only its facts are recorded.

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Member of
Banu Makhzum
Participated in
Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
Traveled to
Aksum

People and things also explored

Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi· Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)· The second migration to Abyssinia· Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet· Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi· Abu al-Rum ibn Umayr· Abu Hatib ibn Amr· Adi ibn Nadla

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/7
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islam.museum contributors. “Hisham ibn Abi Hudhayfa”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hisham-ibn-abi-hudhayfa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-12.

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Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi

Of Banu Makhzum, brother of Habbar ibn Sufyan; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq says he was killed in the year of the Yarmuk, while expressing doubt about it.