Jahsh ibn Riyab ( ar, جحش بن رئاب), was a
companion of
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 mon ...
.
Originally from the
Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe, he settled in
Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow v ...
and 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 ...
, chief of the leading clan of the
Quraysh tribe
The Quraysh ( ar, قُرَيْشٌ) were a grouping of Arab clans that historically inhabited and controlled the city of Mecca and its Kaaba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Hashim clan of the tribe. Despite this, many of the Qu ...
. He married
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
Hashim
Hashim ( ar, هاشم) is a common male Arabic given name.
Hashim may also refer to:
*Hashim Amir Ali
* Hashim (poet)
*Hashim Amla
*Hashim Thaçi
* Hashim Khan
*Hashim Qureshi
* Mir Hashim Ali Khan
* Hashim al-Atassi
*Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
* Hashim ...
clan and aunt of Muhammad, and they had six children.
#
Abd Allah.
#
Ubayd Allah Ubayd Allah ( ar, عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".
Given name Obaidullah
* Obaidullah (detainee), an Afghan detaine ...
.
#
Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.
#
Abd, always known as an adult by his ''kunya'', Abu Ahmad.
#
Habiba, also known as Umm Habib.
#
Hamna.
It is said that Jahsh
emigrated
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...
to
Abyssinia
The Ethiopian Empire (), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia (; Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ , , Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: ''Itiyoophiyaa''), was an empire that historica ...
and joined
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
, image = File:Saad ibn Abi Waqqas Masjid an-Nabawi Calligraphy.png
, alt =
, caption = His name in Arabic calligraphy
, birth_date =
, death_date =
, birth_place = Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia
, death_place ...
in overseas preaching. “The
Chams
The Cham ( Cham: ''Čaṃ'') or Champa people ( Cham: , ''Urang Campa''; vi, Người Chăm or ; km, ជនជាតិចាម, ) are an Austronesian ethnic group. From the 2nd century to 1832 the Cham populated Champa, a contiguous territ ...
of
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...
ascribe their conversion to one of the fathers-in-law of Muhammad” named "Geys" (Jahsh). “The
Chinese Muhammadans have a legend that their faith was first preached in China by a maternal uncle of the Prophet, and his reputed tomb at Canton is highly venerated by them.” What later generations misconstrued as the tomb of "Geys" appears to have been a mausoleum dedicated to his memory in Hami, 400 miles east of Ürümqi in
Xinxiang
Xinxiang ( ; postal: Sinsiang) is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China.
It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to its southwest, Kaifeng to its southeast, Hebi and Anyang to its north, Jiaozuo to its west, and the ...
.
However, “there is not the slightest historical base for this legend.” Jahsh is not even listed among those who emigrated to Abyssinia,
[Guillaume/Ishaq pp. 146-148.] although it may be that he departed permanently from Mecca independently from the general emigration.
References
{{Reflist
Companions of the Prophet