Discover the meaning of the term Almhajrwn (مهاجرون) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 1 min readThey are those who emigrated from their homelands and set out to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). They are a specific group. Al-muhajara: the emigration (hijra).
Al-mahjar: the place of emigration. (plural: muhajir). Al-hajira: midday, at the height of the heat.
Hajar: a town near Medina. Mentioned as masculine, it declines normally, which is the more common; used as feminine, it is made indeclinable. Al-hajr: abandonment.
- : delirium. - : al-hajira. Al-hujr: obscenity in speech.
Al-hijra: abandonment. - : departing from one land to another; in the Sharia: and abandoning what Allah has forbidden (Ibn Hajar). - : according to the Hanafis and the Hanbalis: leaving the land where one lives among the disbelievers and emigrating to the lands of Islam.
Al-hajir: the forsaken, abandoned one. (plural: hujur). - : al-hajira.