his wife and his brother Abū Aḥmad. Abū Aḥmad was blind; he used to walk about Mecca without a guide and he was a poet. He was married to al-Farʿah bint Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb, and his mother was Ummaymah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. All of these settled at Qubāʾ as guests of Mubashshir ibn ʿAbd al-Mundhir.

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah relates from Ibn Shihāb: When the persecution of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions intensified, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered his Companions to emigrate. They set out a few at a time, group by group. Those who left before the Prophet ﷺ himself included: Abū Salamah and his wife; ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah and his wife, Umm ʿAbd Allāh bint Abī Ḥithmah; Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr; ʿUthmān ibn Maẓʿūn; Abū Hudhayfah ibn ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jahsh; ʿUthmān ibn al-Sharīd; and ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir.

Later ʿUmar and ʿIyyāsh ibn Abī Rabīʿah set out with a group. Abū Jahl and al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām pursued ʿIyyāsh, their half-brother on their mother’s side. They reached Medina and told him of his mother’s grief, saying that she had sworn not to seek shelter under a roof. Because he was dutiful to her, he felt compassion and believed them. When the two men persuaded him to leave, they bound him, brought him back to Mecca, and he remained there until shortly before the Conquest.

I (the author) say: He is the one for whom the Prophet ﷺ used to supplicate in the qunūt prayer: “O Allah, deliver Salamah ibn Hishām and ʿIyyāsh ibn Abī Rabīʿah.” This is the report.

Ibn Shihāb also said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf emigrated and lodged with Saʿd ibn al-Rabīʿ; ʿUthmān, al-Zubayr, Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, and a number of others likewise departed. Some Companions remained in Mecca and only came to Medina after the Prophet’s arrival, among them Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ—though there is some disagreement about him.

Yūnus reports from Ibn Isḥāq: Nāfiʿ told me, on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar, from his father ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, who said: “When we had agreed to emigrate, I and ʿIyyāsh ibn…"