It is narrated from Sayyiduna Urwah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the day of the Conquest of Makkah, Ikrimah bin Abi Jahl fled towards Yemen, while his wife, Umm Hakim bint al-Harith bin Hisham, had by then become a Muslim. She asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) for permission to go in search of her husband, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave her permission and granted Ikrimah protection. She set out with a Roman slave of hers, who tried to seduce her; she kept putting him off until she reached some people of the tribe of Akk and asked them for help, and they tied him up. She caught up with her husband at a place in Tihamah. Ikrimah had by then boarded a boat; when he sat in it, he called upon al-Lat and al-Uzza, whereupon the boatmen said that it is not permissible here to call upon anyone besides Allah. Ikrimah thought: By Allah! If He alone is in the sea, then He alone is on the land too. I pledge that I will certainly return to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). So Ikrimah returned with his wife and pledged allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), which he (peace and blessings be upon him) accepted. And when Banu Bakr were defeated, a man of Hudhayl fled back to his wife; she reproached him, and he said: "If only you had seen us at al-Khandamah, when Safwan fled and Ikrimah fled, and the swords of the Muslims were upon us, cutting off every forearm and skull, you would not have uttered a single word of reproach." Urwah says: Sayyiduna Ikrimah bin Abi Jahl (may Allah be pleased with him), of the Banu Makhzum clan of Quraysh, was martyred on the day of the Battle of Ajnadayn.