A month or so before Ramadan, news reached Medina that Ubayd Allah, the son of Jahsh had died. Before Ubayd Allah's conversion he had been a Christian but when he and his wife Umm Habibah, Abu Sufyan's daughter converted to Islam, they had been among those that migrated to Abyssinia to escape persecution. However, much to Umm Habibah's deep distress her husband reverted to Christianity and died as such.