Lineage of QurayshSīrah

ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalibعَبْد المُطَّلِب

Also known as Abdul Muttalib, Shayba ibn Hashim, Shaybat al-Hamd

About

Son of Hāshim and grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ, chief of Banū Hāshim in Makkah. His given name was Shayba; he was called ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib because his uncle al-Muṭṭalib brought him from Yathrib and people took the boy for his slave. He re-dug the well of Zamzam, vowed to sacrifice a son and redeemed ʿAbdullāh with a hundred camels, and faced Abraha in the Year of the Elephant, the event of sūrah al-Fīl. He raised the orphaned Prophet ﷺ until his own death, when the boy was about eight.

The name

'Slave of al-Muṭṭalib', a name given in error when his uncle al-Muṭṭalib brought the boy from Yathrib; his given name was Shayba.

Shaybat al-Ḥamd — the gray hair of praise, by tradition from a streak of white hair at birth

Source: Sīrah

Relationships

FatherHāshim ibn ʿAbd ManāfHis father, eponym of Banū Hāshim

SonʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-MuṭṭalibHis son, the Prophet's ﷺ father, redeemed with a hundred camels

SonAbū ṬālibHis son, who raised the Prophet ﷺ after him

SonḤamza ibn ʿAbd al-MuṭṭalibHis son, the Prophet's ﷺ uncle, martyred at Uḥud

Sonal-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-MuṭṭalibHis son, the Prophet's ﷺ uncle

SonAbū LahabHis son, who opposed the Prophet ﷺ

GrandsonMuḥammadHis grandson, whom he raised after Āmina's death

Of the same era · Lineage of Quraysh

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