Amina bt. Wahb: Difference between revisions

| Burial Place = [[Abwa]]

She was the best girl in [[Quraysh]] in terms of lineage and character when getting married with [['Abd Allah b. Abd al-Muttalib]]. Before 'Abd Allah proposed to Amina, some women such as Nufil b. Asad's daughter, Fatima bt. Marr, and Liyli 'Udwiyyah had proposed to him. According to Bandarli, when Amina got married with Abd Allah, many [[Mecca]] women became heartbroken. Their ceremony lasted for three days and nights. During this period, 'Abd Allah was in bride's house on the basis of the tribe tradition.

She gave birth to him in [[17 Rabi' al-Awwal]] [['Am al-Fil]]. [[Sunnis]] believe it was in 12 [[Rabi' al-Awwal]]. The news of his birth made [[Banu Hashim]] very happy so that [[Abu Lahab]] set free his slave Thabiyyah Aslamiyah who brought his cousin's birth news. [[Abd al-Muttalib]] named him Muhammad. When [[Quraysh]] asked about his grandson's name, he replied:"I want him to be praised in heaven and earth."

Amina was seeking for a nurse to accept Muhammad after giving birth to him. He was an orphan and was not wealthy. Initially, no one accepted him. At last, [[Halima Sa'diyya]], who no one had given her baby to milk until the sunset of that day, and had not accepted the nursery of [[Muhammad (s)]], accepted him.

After two years of milking to Muhammad, she brought the baby to Amina, but asked her to let her take Muhammad to the desert and keep him; since he had some blesses for them and protected her from cholera which was spread in [[Mecca]]. Amina consented to her request. Finally, Halima Sa'diyya brought back Muhammad to his mother in 6th year of 'Am al-Fil.

Amina took her offspring to visit [[Abd Allah]]'s uncles to [[Medina]] in 7th year of 'Am al-Fil. Muhammad's father uncles were from Banu Najjar. She got sick when returning from Medina and passed away in [[Abwa']]. 'Umm Ayman brought Muhammad back to Mecca and five days later they arrived to Mecca.

Some people say [[The Prophet (s)|the Prophet (s)]] decided to do [[hajj]] 'umrah while coming back from [[ghazwa Tabuk]]. Therefore, he set off for [[Mecca]]: When he arrived in his mother's shrine, he asked [[God]] for the permission to pray for her forgiveness, but his request was rejected and this [[verse]] was sent to him:"And the request of forgiveness of [[Abraham]] for his father was only because of a promise he had made to him. But when it became apparent to Abraham that his father was an enemy to [[Allah]], he disassociated himself from him. Indeed was Abraham compassionate and patient."

In [[Shi'a]] view, these [[hadiths]] are not authentic, because imami shi'a unanimously believes in faith of [[Abu Talib]], Amina bt. Wahb, [['Abd Allah b. Abd al-Muttalib]] and the entire prophet's ancestor to [[Adam]]. This was pointed out in hadiths: "[[Jibra'il]] came to [[the prophet (s)]] and said: Muhammad! Your God sends his regards to you and states: I've made hell's fire forbidden for the waist (sulb) which descended you, the uterus which was pregnant of you, and the one who brought you up. That waist belongs to 'Abd Allah b. Abd al-Muttalib, that uterus is Amina bt. Wahb's, and the one who brought the prophet up was Abu Talib, according to Ibn Fazil's hadith, and Fatima bt. Asad.", [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] stated.

In addition to this, Shi'a has raised some problems to the mentioned hadiths. For instance, [[Allmah Amini]] says: Didn't the prophet know he and his followers could not pray for idolaters' forgiveness and mediate for them, even after sending many verses in Tabuk day? So, how he asked for the permission to pray for his mother's forgiveness and to mediate for her? Did he think his mother is not counted as human? Has this [[hadith]] been made to contaminate the holy prophet's reputation or view his mother an idolater? He writes in the following: Some have interpreted requesting for forgiveness praying for the corpse. In this case, it would be in harmony with the mentioned hadiths.