Persecution & Migrations

When Hazrat Abu Ubaidah(ra) embraced Islam, his father tortured him immeasurably. Hazrat Abu Ubaidah(ra) was among the companions who migrated towards Abyssinia. When Hazrat Abu Ubaidah(ra) migrated to Medina, the countenance of the Holy Prophet(sa) started to glow upon seeing him. Hazrat Umar(ra) stepped forward and embraced him and he stayed at the house of Hazrat Kulthum bin Hidam(ra); this was not Umm-e-Kulthum, rather at the house of Kulthum bin Hidam. (Roshan Sitarey az Ghulam Bari Saif Sahib, Vol. 2, pp. 11-12) (Ibn Sa‘d, al-Tabaqat al-Kubra, Vol. 3 [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 2012] 313.)