Islamic History
The Migration of the Muhajirun to Habash on the Ship Shuaybe
7. Abdurrahman b. Auf, 8. Abu Salama b. Abdul-Asad, 9. Abu Salama’s wife Umm Salamah, 10. Osman b. Maz’un, 11. Amir b. Rabi’a, 12. Amir b. Rabi’a’s wife Layla Hatun, 13. Abu Sabra b. Abi Ruhm23, 14. Abu Sabra’s wife Umm Kulsum Hatun24, 15. Hatib b. Amr, 16. Suhayl b. Bayda25, 17. Abdullah b. Mas’ud26 and this group of seventeen people consisting of twelve men and five women was the first hijra to the land of Habesh in Islam.27 The news about the journey of Osman and Rukayya reached our Prophet (PBUH) a bit late. At that time, a woman from the Quraysh had come from the land of Habesh. When asked, she said: “Ya Muhammad!
I saw your son-in-law with his wife by his side!” Our Prophet (PBUH) asked, “How did you see them?” The woman said, “Your son-in-law had put his wife on top of an animal and was leading her.” Our Prophet (PBUH) said, “May Allah be their Master! Indeed, Osman is the first person to migrate with his wife after Lut (AS).”28 Bidaya, 3/66.
- 23. Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, 1/344-345, Ibn Sa’d, 1/204, Tabari, Tarikh, 2/221-222, Ibn Hazm, Jawahir, p. 55-56, Ibn Sayyid, 1/115, Zehebi, Tarikh, p. 184, Ibn Kathir, Bidaya, 3/66, Ibn Khaldun, Tarikh, vol. 2, part 2, p. 8. Ibn Hazm, Jawahir, p. 56, Ibn Sayyid, 1/115, Zehebi, Tarikh, p. 184, Ibn Kathir, Bidaya, 3/67, Kastallani, Mawahib, 1/66, Halebi, 2/5.
- 25. Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, 1/345, Ibn Sa’d, 1/204, Tabari, Tarikh, 2/222, Ibn Sayyid, 1/116, Zehebi, Tarikh, p. 184-185, Ibn Kathir, Bidaya, 3/66, Ibn Khaldun, Tarikh, vol. 2, part 2, p. 8.
- 26. Ibn Sa’d, 1/204, Tabari, Tarikh, 2/222, Ibn Sayyid, 1/116, Ibn Kathir, Bidaya, 3/66, Halebi, 2/5.
- 27. Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Hisham, 1/344, Tabari, Tarikh, 2/221, Hakim, 2/622, Ibn Asir, Kamil, 2/76, Ibn Kathir, Bayhaqi, Dalail, 2/297, Muhibb al-Tabari, 2/113-114, Zehebi, Tarikh, p. 183, Ibn Kathir, Bidaya, 3/66- 67, Haythami, 9/80-81, Kastallani, Mawahib, 1/66, Diyarbekri, 1/289, Zurqani, 1/271.