Ashama the Najashi, Negus · The just king of Abyssinia
In the hadithNegus · The just king of Abyssinia
Ashama the Najashiأصحمة النجاشي
Approximate dateAksum
A Christian king who sheltered the first Muslim refugees and wept at Surah Maryam.
When Muslims fled Makkah in 615, the Najashi of Aksum received them. Quraysh sent envoys to demand them back, but after Jafar ibn Abi Talib recited Surah Maryam, he wept and said this and what Isa brought came from the same source. He refused to hand them over. When he died, the Prophet ﷺ prayed the funeral prayer for him in Madinah.
What does the hadith say?
What grew out of it?
The first hijrah succeeded because one king was just.
The lesson
Justice opens doors that power cannot.
Where do they appear in the story?
Who else is linked?
Aksum (Abyssinia)Aksum (Abyssinia)IsaMaryamUmm HabibahEzanaKaleb
Source: hadith · Wikipedia
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani