Second migration to Abyssinia her children died on the return journey "from drinking foul water".<ref name="Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 530">Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 530.</ref> Ibn Ishaq also names seven men and three women who died in Abyssinia. Abu Bakr wished to spare A'isha the discomforts of a journey to Ethiopia and tried to bring forward her marriage to Mut`am's son. Mut`am refused because Abu Bakr had converted to Islam. During this migration, the prophet Muhammad married Ramlah bint Abu Sufyan while not present there, since her husband relapsed to Christianity. They returned to Mecca after some years under the protection of Ashama ibn Abjar, the Emperor
HMS Abyssinia (1870) a faster time than they did. "Abyssinia" remained at anchor in Bombay harbour, other than for occasional brief trips for firing practice, for the whole of her service career. When the Indian Harbour Defence Service was discontinued in 1903, she was sold locally and broken up. HMS Abyssinia (1870) HMS "Abyssinia" was a breastwork monitor ordered, designed and built by J & W Dudgeon specifically for the Bombay Marine for the defence of the harbour at Bombay. She was designed by Sir Edward Reed, and was a smaller version of, and hence a half-sister to, the s and . It