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
Migration to Abyssinia King Armah and Ella Tsaham. Some of the exiles returned to Mecca and made the hijra to Medina with Muhammad, while others remained in Abyssinia until they came to Medina in 628. According to the traditional view, members of the early Muslim community in Mecca faced persecution, which prompted Muhammad to advise them to seek refuge in Abyssinia. The earliest extant account is given in Ibn Ishaq's sira: Another view, grounded in the political developments of the time, suggests that following the Sassanid capture of Jerusalem in 614 many believers saw a potential danger to the community as they were