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Death of Hazrat Aminah
In the sixth year of his life, Muhammad (PBUH) was sent to the care of his mother. The noble lady, in order to show her boy to the maternal relatives of his father, set out for Medina along with her slave girl. Arriving at Medina she alighted at the house where her husband had died and been buried. But on their way back to Makkah, they reached a place named al-Abwa where Hazrat Aminah fell sick and died. After her burial there the orphan was carried back to Makkah by Umm Aiman who was a faithful nurse of the child. Guardianship of Abdul Muttalib
Abdul Muttalib took Muhammad (PBUH) into his own custody and showered all his love on him and made him the chief object of his attention. He was then the chief of the Quraysh and also the chief of the people of the Makkah, and a farash or special seating accommodation was prepared and reserved for him in the Ka’bah. His sons used to sit round this farash as a mark of respect for their father. When Muhammad (PBUH) was brought to him, he took him near his own seat stroked his back and showed other signs of his favour. And so the love between the grandfather and the grandchild increased day by day and the trio of them - the grandfather the mother and the grandson - were exceedingly happy. By earthly happiness does not last long. Aminah now longed to acquaint her first born with his maternal uncles and aunts and she took him with Umm-e-Aiman (the servant maid left by Abdullah) to Medina. She showed him the house where his father Abdullah had died ano -;;:n’-rc he was buried and the boy now res-n^ed th.it h« ”«Death of Abdul Muttalib
But Muhammad’s (PBUH) sorrow was not over yet. Two years later, his aged grandfather, now in his eightieth year, also died and the weeping orphan followed the corpse of his affectionate
Ibn Hisham, al-Sirat al-Nabwi (Urdu), Lahore, 1994, P.63.
Prof. Khurshid Ahmad, Islam its Meaning and Messegc, London, 1993, P.62.
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grandfather to its last resting place. And the young boy was as sorry about his grandfather’s death as he had been about his mother’s.6 Guardianship of Abu Talib
Abdul Muttalib on his death-bed entrusted the guardianship of Muhammad (PBUH) to Abu Talib and the latter loved his nephew just as did Abdul Muttalib. Abu Talib loved the Holy Prophet. He preferred him even to his sons, for he found Muhammad intelligent, generous, kind-hearted and noble in his disposition. To Muhammad (PBUH), Abu Talib was now in the place of father and mother. Muhammad (PBUH) never ceased to speak well of him and of Abdul Muttalib.
One of Muhammad’s (PBUH) greatest sorrows was that Abu Talib never became a Muslim but their relationship in life was the tenderest and most trustworthy, proving for ever that Islam is consistent with true love for one’s own relative though they be of another faith. In fact, the Holy Prophet never ceased to love his bitterest foes at it was no fault of his, if some of them never could be reconciled to him. Abu Talib, though a disbeliever remained a faithful guardian and a true friend of Muhammad (PBUH) to the last. ”In the twelfth year of Muhammad’s (PBUH) life, Abu Talib made up his mind to go for merchandise to Syria. He did not intend to t»ke Muhammad (PBUH) with him fearing the hardship of the journey and the passage through the desert. But Muhammad (PBUH) not wishing tu be ieparsitd ficsn his uncle, clung to him and prevailed upon him to take him to Syria aiong with him.’