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Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh ( ) was the brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh , Hammanah bint Jahsh and Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh .¹ He is one of the four monotheistic hanifs mentioned by Ibn Ishaq .² The others being Waraqah ibn Nawfal , Uthman ibn Huwarith and Zayd ibn Amr . He was married to Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan (who was also known as Umm Habiba Ramla).³ They had a daughter named Habibah bint Ubayd-Allah .⁴ He and his wife became Muslims and, in order to escape from the Meccan persecution, they emigrated to Abyssinia . At Axum , part of the Aksumite Empire the Christian king, Aṣḥama ibn Abjar , gave sanctuary to the Muslims. There Ubayd-Allah eventually converted to Christianity and testified his new faith to the other Muslim refugees. Ibn Ishaq relates: 'Ubaydullah went on searching until Islam came; then he migrated with the Muslims to Abyssinia taking with him his wife who was a Muslim, Umm Habiba b. When he arrived there he adopted Christianity, parted from Islam, and died a Christian in Abyssinia. Muhammad bin Jafar al-Zubayr told me that when he had become a Christian 'Ubaydullah as he passed the prophet's companions who were there used to say: 'We see clearly, but your eyes are only half open', i.e. 'We see, but you are only trying to see and cannot see yet.' Due to his conversion, he was divorced from his wife.⁵ He stopped following the Islamic prohibition of drinking alcohol, and eventually died in Abyssinia . Later on the Islamic prophet Muhammad married his former wife, Ramlah bint Abu Sufyan and later on his sister, Zaynab bint Jahsh.⁶

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Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh ( ) was one of the four monotheistic hanifs mentioned by Ibn Ishaq , the others being Waraqah ibn Nawfal , Uthman ibn Huwarith and Zayd ibn Amr . He was the son of Jahsh ibn Riyab and Umama bint Abdulmuttalib , hence a brother of Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh , Zaynab bint Jahsh , Abu Ahmad ibn Jahsh , Habiba bint Jahsh and Hammanah bint Jahsh , a first cousin of Islamic prophet Muhammad and Ali , and a nephew of Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib . He married Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan (who was also known as Umm Habiba), and they had one daughter, Habibah bint Ubayd-Allah . He and his wife became Muslims and, in order to escape from the Meccan persecution, they emigrated to Abyssinia . At Axum , part of the Aksumite Empire the Christian king, Aṣḥama ibn Abjar , gave sanctuary to the Muslims. There Ubayd-Allah eventually converted to Christianity and testified his new faith to the other Muslim refugees. Ibn Ishaq relates: 'Ubaydullah went on searching until Islam came; then he migrated with the Muslims to Abyssinia taking with him his wife who was a Muslim, Umm Habiba bint Abu Sufyan. When he arrived there he adopted Christianity, parted from Islam, and died a Christian in Abyssinia. Muhammad bin Jafar al-Zubayr told me that when he had become a Christian 'Ubaydullah as he passed the prophet's companions who were there used to say: 'We see clearly, but your eyes are only half open', i.e. 'We see, but you are only trying to see and cannot see yet.' Due to his conversion, he separated from his wife. He eventually died in Abyssinia in 627. Later on Muhammad married his widow, Ramlah .

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Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh ( ) (c.588-627) was one of the four monotheistic hanifs mentioned by Ibn Ishaq , the others being Waraka ibn Nawfal , Uthman ibn Huwairith and Zayd ibn Amr .

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Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who later converted to Christianity Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh al-Asadi ( ) ( c. 588–627 ) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who later apostated from Islam by converting to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity following his migration to Abyssinia in around 615 CE. He is one of the four hanifs (a type of monotheists ) mentioned by Ibn Ishaq , the others being Waraka ibn Nawfal , Uthman ibn Huwairith and Zayd ibn Amr .

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Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who later converted to Christianity Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Ri'ab ( Arabic : عُبَيْد اللَّه ٱبْن جَحْش ٱبْن رِئَاب , romanized : ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Jaḥsh ibn Riʾāb ; c. 588–627 ) was a contemporary and first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who apostatized from Islam by converting to Christianity following his migration to Abyssinia in around 615 CE. He is one of the four hanifs (a type of monotheists ) mentioned by Ibn Ishaq , the others being Waraka ibn Nawfal , Uthman ibn Huwairith and Zayd ibn Amr .

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