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Abd Allah ibn Muhammad

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad also known as al-Ṭāhir and al-Ṭayyib was one of the sons of Muhammad and Khadija. He died in childhood.

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Abd Allah ibn Muhammad
عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن مُحَمَّد
Born605-606 CE12345
Died610 CE (aged 4)
Resting place
Jannat al-Mu'alla cemetery, Mecca, Arabia
Title
List
  • al-Tahir
    (lit.'the pure')
  • al-Tayyib
    (lit.'the good')
Parents
RelativesQasim (full brother)
Fatima (full-sister)
Ibrahim (paternal half-brother)
FamilyHouse of Muhammad

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad (Arabic: عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن مُحَمَّد) also known as al-Ṭāhir (lit.'the pure')6 and al-Ṭayyib (lit.'the good')7 was one of the sons of Muhammad and Khadija. He died in childhood.

Biography

Qasim was the eldest son of Muhammad and Khadija. After Qasim, his four sisters were born. According to early Islamic sources, Abd Allah was born before the first revelation in 610 CE, most likely between 605 and 608.891011 He was the youngest of their six children.

Muhammad gave him the name of his father. Abd Allah died at 4 around 610 CE in Mecca, or roughly just before Muhammad's first revelation.9121314

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References

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  2. Ibn Hisham, Abd al-Malik (1955). Sirat Rasul Allah. Cairo: Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif.
  3. al-Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir (1988). The History of al-Tabari, Volume VI: Muhammad at Mecca. SUNY Press.
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  5. Peters, F. E. (1994). Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. SUNY Press.
  6. "The Light of The Holy Qur'an (Sura Kauthar (The Abundance))". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-07-05.
  7. Ahmed, Mahdi Rizqullah (2005). A Biography of the Prophet of Islam: In the Light of the Original Sources, an Analytical Study. Translated by Syed Iqbal Zaheer. Darussalam. p. 133. ISBN 9789960969022. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
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  13. Watt 1961.
  14. Peters 1994.