ʿAbdallāh b. Jaḥsh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Watt, W. Montgomery
Leiden
Brill
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ʿAbdallāh b. Jaḥsh (d. 3/625) was a leader among the early Muslims who migrated with the prophet Muḥammad to Medina in the year 1/622. His sister Zaynab, who married the Prophet in the year 5/626 after her divorce from his adopted son Zayd b. Ḥāritha, was also part of this group. ʿAbdallāh b. Jaḥsh belonged to the Banū Asad b. Khuzayma and was a confederate (ḥalīf) of the Banū Umayya of Quraysh. His mother was Umayma bt. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the aunt of the Prophet. ʿAbdallāh's