Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, Founder of the caravans
In the hadithFounder of the caravans
Hashim ibn Abd Manafهاشم بن عبد مناف
Traditional date, disputedMakkah
Great-grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ, who fed Makkah in famine and began the trade journeys.
His name was Amr; he was called Hashim, "the one who crumbles", because he broke bread into broth for his people in a famine. He is credited with starting Quraysh's winter caravan to Yemen and summer caravan to Syria. He married Salma of Yathrib and died on a journey at Gaza.
What does the Quran say?
Their accustomed security [in] the caravan of winter and summer -
Quran 106:2
What grew out of it?
His clan, Banu Hashim, is the Prophet's ﷺ family.
Where do they appear in the story?
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
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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