Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, The Prophet's ﷺ father
In the hadithThe Prophet's ﷺ father
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalibعبد الله بن عبد المطلب
Traditional date, disputedYathrib (Madinah)
The father of the Prophet ﷺ, who died before his son was born.
Abdullah was the son his father had vowed to sacrifice; tradition says the lot fell on him and he was ransomed with a hundred camels. He married Aminah bint Wahb, then left with a trade caravan to Syria. On the way back he fell ill and died in Yathrib, months before Muhammad ﷺ was born.
What does the Quran say?
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
Muhammad ﷺKhosrow IJustinianSayf ibn Dhi YazanHamzah ibn Abd al-MuttalibAbu Sufyan ibn HarbAl-Abbas ibn Abd al-MuttalibAmmar ibn Yasir
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Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani