{{short description|Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad}} {{Infobox person | name = Jahsh ibn Riyab | image = | caption = | native_name = جحش بن رئاب | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_place = | native_name_lang = Arabic | other_names = | known_for = Companion (Sahabi) of the Prophet | spouse = Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib | father = Riyab | mother = | children = {{bulleted list|Zaynab|Abd Allah|Abu Ahmad|Hammanah|Habiba|Ubayd Allah}} }} '''Jahsh ibn Riyab''' ({{langx|ar|جحش بن رئاب}}), was a companion of Muhammad.
Originally from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe,<ref>Muhammad ibn Ishaq, ''Sirat Rasul Allah''. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). ''The Life of Muhammad'', p. 116. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</ref> he settled in Mecca and formed an alliance with Harb ibn Umayya, chief of the leading clan of the Quraysh tribe. He married Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib, a member of the Hashim clan and aunt of Muhammad,<ref>Muhammad ibn Saad, ''Tabaqat'', vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). ''The Women of Madina'', p. 33. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.</ref> and they had six children.
# Abd Allah.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 146, 168, 215-217, 230, 286-289, 388, 401.</ref><ref>Bewley/Saad, p. 173.</ref><ref>Watt/McDonald/Tabari, p. 139.</ref><ref>Al-Tabari, ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk'', vol. 7. Translated by McDonald, M. V. (1987). ''The Foundation of the Community'', pp. 18-23, 29, 134, 137. New York: State University of New York Press.</ref> # Ubayd Allah.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 99, 146, 529.</ref><ref>Bewley/Saad, p. 68.</ref><ref>Poonawala/Tabari, p. 133.</ref> # Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 495.</ref><ref>Ibn Hisham note 918.</ref><ref>Bewley/Saad, pp. 72-81.</ref><ref>Al-Tabari, ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk'', vol. 8. Translated by Fishbein, M. (1997). ''The Victory of Islam'', pp. 1-4, 61. New York: State University of New York Press.</ref><ref>Al-Tabari, ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk'', vol. 9. Translated by Poonawala, I. K. (1990). ''The Last Years of the Prophet'', pp. 23, 127, 134, 137, 168. New York: State University of New York Press.</ref><ref>Al-Tabari, ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk'', vol. 39. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). ''Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors'', pp. 9, 180-182. New York: State University of New York Press.</ref> # Abd, always known as an adult by his ''kunya'', Abu Ahmad.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 215-217, 230.</ref><ref>Ibn Hisham note 918.</ref><ref>Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 80-81.</ref><ref>Al-Tabari, ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk'', vol. 6. Translated by Watt, W. M., & McDonald, M. V. (1988). ''Muhammad at Mecca'', p. 139.</ref> # Habiba, also known as Umm Habib.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 523.</ref><ref>Bewley/Saad, pp. 170-171.</ref> # Hamna.<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 389, 495, 499, 522.</ref><ref>Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 170.</ref><ref>Fishbein/Tabari, pp. 61, 63.</ref>
It is said that Jahsh emigrated to Abyssinia and joined Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas in overseas military conquests. “The Chams of Cambodia ascribe their conversion to one of the fathers-in-law of Muhammad”<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/preachingofislam00arno/preachingofislam00arno_djvu.txt/ Arnold, T. W. (1913). ''The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith, 2nd Ed.'', p. 296 f3. London: Constable & Company Ltd.]</ref> named "Geys" (Jahsh). “The Chinese Muhammadans have a legend that their faith was first preached in China by a maternal uncle of the Prophet, and his reputed tomb at Canton is highly venerated by them.”<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/preachingofislam00arno/preachingofislam00arno_djvu.txt/ Arnold (1913), p. 296.]</ref> What later generations misconstrued as the tomb of "Geys" appears to have been a mausoleum dedicated to his memory in Hami, 400 miles east of Ürümqi in Xinxiang.<ref>see ''en.chinaxinjiang.cn/02/01/201007/t201''</ref>
However, “there is not the slightest historical base for this legend.”<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/preachingofislam00arno/preachingofislam00arno_djvu.txt/ Arnold (1913), p. 296.]</ref> Jahsh is not even listed among those who emigrated to Abyssinia,<ref>Guillaume/Ishaq pp. 146-148.</ref> although it may be that he departed permanently from Mecca independently from the general emigration.
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