Khunays ibn Ḥudhāfa (
Arabic
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: خنيس بن حذافة) (d. 2 AH/624) was a
companion of
Muhammad
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. He died at the beginning of twenty-five months after Muhammad emigrated to Medina.
Biography
Khunays was the son of Hudhafa ibn Qays from the
Sahm clan of the
Quraysh tribe in
Mecca
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. His mother, Da'ida bint Hidhyam, was also from the Sahm clan. He had two brothers,
Abd Allah and Qays.
He was 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 ...
at an early date "before Allah's Messenger entered the house of
Al-Arqam".
He joined the
emigration to Abyssinia in 616, along with his two brothers, seven cousins and four other members of the clan. Khunays was among those who returned to Mecca in 619 "under the protection of a citizen or by stealth." Soon afterwards he married
Hafsa bint Umar
Ḥafṣa bint ʿUmar ( ar, حفصة بنت عمر; 605–665), was a wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and daughter of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the second caliph of Islam. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title ...
, who would then have been about fourteen years old.
When
Umar
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate ...
emigrated
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to
Medina
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in 622, Khunays and Hafsa accompanied his party. At first they lodged with Rifa'a ibn Abd al-Mundhir. When Muhammad instructed each Muslim to take a brother in Islam, he paired Khunays with Abu Abs ibn Jabr, a brother-in-law of
Muhammad ibn Maslama
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.
Khunays was the only member of the Sahm clan who fought at the
Battle of Badr in March 624.
He died "at the beginning of twenty-five months after the Prophet emigrated to Medina," i.e., in late August 624. He was buried at
Al-Baqi', where Muhammad personally officiated at his funeral.
He had no descendants. His widow, Hafsa was later married to prophet Muhammad.
[Ibn Hisham note 918.]
See also
*
List of expeditions of Muhammad
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*
List of Sahabah
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People
* List (surname)
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*
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Sunni view of the Sahaba
*
Umar
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070927051200/http://www.quraan.com/index.aspx?tabindex=9&tabid=24&bid=2&cid=60
*http://www.themodernreligion.com/women/woman_man_compare.htm
624 deaths
Banu Sahm
Year of birth unknown
Sahabah who participated in the battle of Uhud
Sahabah who participated in the battle of Badr
Muhajirun
Burials at Jannat al-Baqī
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