Abū ʿUbayda b. al-Jarrāḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Athamina, Khalil
Leiden
Brill
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Abū ʿUbayda ʿĀmir b. ʿAbdallāh Ibn al-Jarrāḥ (d. 18/639) was an early Companion of the Prophet, from the tribe of Banū l-Ḥārith, of the Qurayshī clan of Fihr, one of the ten aristocratic clans of Mecca-the so-called al-Abtaḥiyyūn-who were settled in the lower quarters of Mecca by the ancestor of Muḥammad Quṣayy b. Kilāb. Abū ʿUbayda's family had joined the internal covenant of al-muṭayyabūn (the perfumed ones), headed by the clan of Banū ʿAbd Manāf, against the rival camp headed by