Jahsh ibn Riyab

Jahsh ibn Riyab (Arabic: جحش بن رئاب), was a companion of Muhammad.

Jahsh ibn Riyab
جحش بن رئاب
Known forCompanion (Sahabi) of the Prophet
SpouseUmayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
Children
Parent
  • Riyab (father)

Originally from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe,[1] he settled in Mecca and formed an alliance with Harb ibn Umayya, chief of the leading clan of the Quraysh tribe. He married Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib, a member of the Hashim clan and aunt of Muhammad,[2] and they had six children.

  1. Abd Allah.[3][4][5][6]
  2. Ubayd Allah.[7][8][9]
  3. Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
  4. Abd, always known as an adult by his kunya, Abu Ahmad.[16][17][18][19]
  5. Habiba, also known as Umm Habib.[20][21]
  6. Hamna.[22][23][24]

It is said that Jahsh emigrated to Abyssinia and joined Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas in overseas preaching. “The Chams of Cambodia ascribe their conversion to one of the fathers-in-law of Muhammad”[25] 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.”[26] 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.[27]

However, “there is not the slightest historical base for this legend.”[28] Jahsh is not even listed among those who emigrated to Abyssinia,[29] although it may be that he departed permanently from Mecca independently from the general emigration.

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. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). The Women of Madina, p. 33. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
  3. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 146, 168, 215-217, 230, 286-289, 388, 401.
  4. Bewley/Saad, p. 173.
  5. Watt/McDonald/Tabari, p. 139.
  6. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 7. Translated by McDonald, M. V. (1987). The Foundation of the Community, pp. 18-23, 29, 134, 137. New York: State University of New York Press.
  7. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 99, 146, 529.
  8. Bewley/Saad, p. 68.
  9. Poonawala/Tabari, p. 133.
  10. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 495.
  11. Ibn Hisham note 918.
  12. Bewley/Saad, pp. 72-81.
  13. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 8. Translated by Fishbein, M. (1997). The Victory of Islam, pp. 1-4, 61. New York: State University of New York Press.
  14. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 9. Translated by Poonawala, I. K. (1990). The Last Years of the Prophet, pp. 23, 127, 134, 137, 168. New York: State University of New York Press.
  15. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 39. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors, pp. 9, 180-182. New York: State University of New York Press.
  16. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 215-217, 230.
  17. Ibn Hisham note 918.
  18. Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 80-81.
  19. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 6. Translated by Watt, W. M., & McDonald, M. V. (1988). Muhammad at Mecca, p. 139.
  20. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 523.
  21. Bewley/Saad, pp. 170-171.
  22. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 389, 495, 499, 522.
  23. Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 170.
  24. Fishbein/Tabari, pp. 61, 63.
  25. Arnold, T. W. (1913). The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith, 2nd Ed., p. 296 f3. London: Constable & Company Ltd.
  26. Arnold (1913), p. 296.
  27. see en.chinaxinjiang.cn/02/01/201007/t201
  28. Arnold (1913), p. 296.
  29. Guillaume/Ishaq pp. 146-148.
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