ʿAbd-Allāh ibn Jaḥsh ( ar, عَبْد ٱلله ابْن جَحْش) ( 586 – 625), was the brother-in-law and companion of the Islamic prophet,

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mo ...

Description

He was described as being "neither tall nor short and had a lot of hair."

Family

He was the son of

Jahsh ibn Riyab Jahsh ibn Riyab ( ar, جحش بن رئاب), was a companion of Muhammad. Originally from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe, he settled in Mecca and formed an alliance with Harb ibn Umayya, chief of the leading clan of the Quraysh tribe. He married U ...

, an immigrant to

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from the Asadi tribe, and

Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib } Umayma bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ( ar, أميمة بنت عبد المطلب) was a paternal aunt of Muhammad. Biography She was born in Mecca, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiya. She married Jahsh ...

, a member of the

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i clan of the Qurayshi tribe. One of his sisters was

Zaynab bint Jahsh Zaynab bint Jaḥsh ( ar, زينب بنت جحش; 590–641 CE), was a first cousin and wife of Muhammad and therefore considered by Muslims to be a Mother of the Believers. Abdulmalik ibn Hisham. ''Notes to Ibn Ishaq's "Life of the Prophet"' ...

, a wife of Muhammad. The family had formed an alliance with

Harb ibn Umayya Ḥarb ibn Umayya ibn ʿAbd Shams ( ar, حرب بن أمية بن عبد شمس) was the father of Abu Sufyan and Arwa and the son of Umayya ibn Abd Shams. Harb is credited in the Islamic tradition as the first among the Quraysh to write in Arabic ...

h and his son

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. He married Fatima bint Abi Hubaysh, who was a cousin of

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from the Asadi clan of the Quraysh, and they had one son, Muhammad.

Conversion to Islam

Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh converted to Islam under the influence of

Abu Bakr Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first caliph of Islam. He is known with the honor ...

. He joined other Muslims in the second emigration to Abyssinia in 616. He returned to Mecca in late 619, and was one of the first to

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in 622.

Battles

Muhammad dispatched ibn Jahsh on the

Nakhla Raid The Raid on Nakhla ( ar, سرِيَّة نَخْلَة) was the seventh Caravan Raid initiated by Muhammad, and the first successful raid against the Meccans, which took place at Nakhlah, in the Hejazi region of what is now Saudi Arabia. It too ...

Rajab Rajab ( ar, رَجَب) is the seventh month of the Islamic calendar. The lexical definition of the classical Arabic verb ''rajaba'' is "to respect" which could also mean "be awe or be in fear", of which Rajab is a derivative. This month is re ...

A.H. 2 (October 623), together with seven other

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and six camels. Muhammad gave Abd-Allah a letter, with instructions not to read it until he had travelled for two days, but then to follow its instructions without putting pressure on his companions. After Abd-Allah had proceeded for two days, he duly opened the letter; it told him to proceed until he reached Nakhlah, between

and

Ta'if Taif ( ar, , translit=aṭ-Ṭāʾif, lit=The circulated or encircled, ) is a city and governorate in the Makkan Region of Saudi Arabia. Located at an elevation of in the slopes of the Hijaz Mountains, which themselves are part of the Sarat M ...

in the Hejazi region, lie in wait for the Quraysh and observe what they were doing. When the Quraysh caravan passed through Nakhlah, Abd-Allah urged his companions to attack the merchants despite the fact that it was still the sacred month of Rajab, when fighting was forbidden. In the battle, one of the Qurayshi merchants was killed and two others were captured, along with all the merchandise. At first Muhammad disapproved Abd-Allah's actions, saying, "I did not instruct you to fight in the sacred month." But later he announced a new revelation: Later Abd-Allah was among those who fought at the Battle of Badr. He also participated in Battle of Uhad. And died (

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) in the battle.

Death

Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh was killed in the battle of Uhud by Akhnas ibn Shurayq. According to his family, his opponents mutilated his corpse by cutting off his nose and ears.

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