Ubaydah ibn al-Harith

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Ubaydah ibn al-Harith (Arabic: عبيدة بن الحارث‎) (c.562-624) was a companion of Muhammad.

Ubaydah was the son of Al-Harith ibn Muttalib ibn Abdmanaf ibn Qusayy,[1][2] hence a second cousin of Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib and of Abu Talib ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib. His mother, Sukhayla bint Khuza'i, was from the Thaqif tribe. He had two full brothers, Al-Tufayl and Al-Husayn, who were more than twenty years younger than himself. Ubayda's appearance is described as "medium, swarthy, with a handsome face."[3]

By various concubines, he was the father of nine children: Muawiya, Awn, Munqidh, Al-Harith, Ibrahim, Rabta, Khadija, Suhaykhla and Safiya.[4] He had no children by his only known legal wife, Zaynab bint Khuzayma.

Ubayda became a Muslim before Muhammad entered the house of Al-Arqam in 614.[5] His name is twelfth on Ibn Ishaq's list of people who accepted Islam at the invitation of Abu Bakr.[6]

In 622 Ubaydah and his brothers joined the general emigration to Medina. They boarded with Abdullah ibn Salama in Quba[7] until Muhammad allotted them some land in Medina. Muhammad gave Ubaydah two brothers in Islam: Abu Bakr's freedman Bilal ibn Rabah and an ansar named Umayr ibn Al-Humam.[8]

Ubayda was one of the first to whom Muhammad gave a banner on a military expedition. Muhammad sent him with sixty riders to meet Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and two hundred riders in the valley of Rabigh. Although the two sides exchanged arrows, there was no serious attempt at fighting, for "they did not unsheathe a sword or approach one another."[9]

Following his death, his widow Zaynab became Muhammad's fifth wife.[10]

See also

  • Family tree of Obaidah ibn al-Harith
  • Sahaba

Cousin of Muhammad's father, Abdullah. Obaidah ibn al-Harith ibn al-Muttalib ibn Abdul Manaf

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References

  1. ↑ Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life of Muhammad, p. 116. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ↑ Muhammad ibn Saad, Tabaqat vol. 3. Translated by Bewley, A. (2013). The Companions of Badr, p. 36. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
  3. ↑ Ibn Saad/Bewley, p. 36.
  4. ↑ Ibn Saad/Bewley, p. 36.
  5. ↑ Ibn Saad/Bewley, p. 36.
  6. ↑ Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume, p. 116.
  7. ↑ Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume, p. 218.
  8. ↑ Ibn Saad/Bewley, pp. 36-37.
  9. ↑ Ibn Saad/Bewley, p. 37. See also Ibn Ishaq (Guillaume) p. 281.
  10. ↑ Ibn Hisham note 918.
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