[4] He and his wife became Muslims and, in order to escape from the Meccan persecution, they emigrated to Abyssinia.
[5] in Ethiopia the Christian king Armah (also known as Najashi) gave sanctuary to the Muslims.
There Ubayd Allah eventually converted to Christianity and testified his new faith to the other Muslim refugees.
Ibn Ishaq relates: 'Ubaydullah went on searching until Islam came; then he migrated with the Muslims to Abyssinia taking with him his wife who was a Muslim, Umm Habiba bint Abu Sufyan.
Muhammad bin Jafar al-Zubayr told me that when he had become a Christian 'Ubaydullah as he passed the prophet's companions who were there used to say: 'We see clearly, but your eyes are only half open', i.e. 'We see, but you are only trying to see and cannot see yet.'