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Abu Salamah ibn Abd al-Asad

أَبُو سَلَمَة بْن عَبْد الْأَسَد

Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Asad

Biography

The first companion to emigrate to Madinah, and one of the few Sahaba who made both Hijras (Abyssinia and Madinah). Husband of Umm Salamah (who would later become a wife of the Prophet ). He and Umm Salamah were among those who emigrated to Abyssinia during the first Hijra, then returned to Makkah when news spread (mistakenly) that the Quraysh had accepted Islam. When the second Hijra to Madinah became possible, Abu Salamah was the first to go, openly, not secretly. The Quraysh seized this opportunity: they retained Umm Salamah (a Qurashiyyah, so "theirs"), while his tribe took back his infant son (a tug-of-war so violent the child's arm was dislocated). He was forced to travel to Madinah alone. After more than sixteen months, Umm Salamah was eventually released by her kin and reunited with her son, making her way to Madinah with the help of the honorable non-Muslim Uthmān ibn Ṭalḥa. Abu Salamah died from wounds sustained at the Battle of Uḥud, after which the Prophet married Umm Salamah.

Significance

First companion to emigrate to Madinah; husband of Umm Salamah; made both the Hijra to Abyssinia and to Madinah

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