Abd Allah ibn Jahsh

His full lineage is Abd Allah ibn Jahsh ibn Riab ibn Yamar ibn Sabira ibn Murra ibn Kabir ibn Ghanm ibn Dudan ibn Asad ibn Khuzayma. His father was Jahsh ibn Riab and his mother was Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib, a paternal aunt of the Prophet, making Abd Allah the Prophet's first cousin. His siblings included Zaynab bint Jahsh, Hamna, Abu Ahmad, and Ubayd Allah. The protected father and mother cells in the CSV are blank, so both relationships are recorded only in the separate relationship review and not altered inside the research file.

Ibn Sa'd and Ibn Abd al-Barr report that Abd Allah and his brothers accepted Islam before the Prophet entered the house of al-Arqam. He joined the second migration to Abyssinia, returned to Mecca, and later emigrated to Medina. These two migrations placed him among the early Companions who experienced persecution in Mecca, refuge in Abyssinia, and the formation of the Medinan community. He also fought at Badr, establishing his status among the Badri participants.

In Rajab 2 AH, the Prophet appointed him over a small party of Emigrants and sent him toward Nakhla with a sealed letter to be opened after two days of travel. The letter instructed him to observe Quraysh movements and not compel any companion to continue. At Nakhla the party encountered a Quraysh caravan; Amr ibn al-Hadrami was killed and two men were captured. Because the party was uncertain whether the day still belonged to Rajab, the incident raised a serious question about fighting in a sacred month. Ibn Ishaq's sira connects the controversy with Quran 2:217.

His marital history requires caution. Ibn Abd al-Barr, al-Dhahabi, Ibn Hajar, and other works identify Zaynab bint Khuzayma as his wife and say that the Prophet married her after Abd Allah was killed at Uhud. In contrast, a sequence transmitted from Ibn Ishaq names Jahm or al-Tufayl and then Ubayda ibn al-Harith among her former husbands. Because this is a real conflict among early biographical traditions, the protected spouse relationship is correctly retained as Disputed rather than confirmed or removed.

A famous report describes Abd Allah praying with Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas before Uhud. He asked to meet a fierce opponent, be killed, and have his nose and ears cut, so that he could say before God that this happened for God and His Messenger. He was killed at Uhud and his body was mutilated, leading later biographers to call him al-Mujadda fi Allah, the one mutilated in God's cause. Reports differ over the killer and some battlefield details, so the profile preserves only the secure result: death and mutilation at Uhud.

He died at the Battle of Uhud in Shawwal 3 AH, conventionally corresponding to 625 CE. Ibn Ishaq transmits from Abd Allah's family that the Prophet buried him in the same grave as his maternal uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib, while explicitly noting that he heard this only from the family. The burial is therefore presented as an early family attribution and a probable report, not as a separately and conclusively identified individual grave or an invented map location.