Talib b. Abi Talib
Ṭālib b. Abu Ṭālib (Arabic: طالب بن ابی طالب) was the eldest son of Abu Talib and Fatima bt. Asad, the brother of Imam Ali (a) and the cousin of the Prophet (s). According to sources, he was ten years older than Aqil b. Abi Talib and thirty years older than Imam Ali (a).[1]
There is not much information about the life of Talib. According to sources, he left Mecca upon the battle of Badr, out of force, together with the people from Quraysh; but, he returned to Mecca when one of the people of Quraysh said that the hearts of Banu Hashim were with Muhammad (s).[2] Some others said that he did not return to Mecca and went to Syria.[3]
According to a war cry Talib made in that battle, he prayed for the defeat of the army of Quraysh from Muslims.[4] He did not have a child.[5]
Based on a hadith from Imam al-Sadiq (a), he became Muslim.[6] Ja'far Murtada al-Amili considered this hadith al-mursala.[7]
Notes
- ↑ Shāmī, al-Durr al-naẓīm, p. 227.
- ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 2, p. 439.
- ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 2, p. 42.
- ↑ Bayhaqī, Dalāʾil al-nubuwwa, vol. 3, p. 105.
- ↑ Ibn Ḥazm, Jumhurat ansāb al-ʿarab, p. 37.
- ↑ Kulaynī, al-Kāfī, vol. 8, p. 375.
- ↑ ʿĀmilī, al-Ṣaḥīḥ min sīrat al-nabīyy, vol. 5, p. 18.
References
- ʿĀmilī, Jaʿfar Murtaḍā al-. Al-Ṣaḥīḥ min sīrat al-nabīyy. Qom: Dār al-Ḥadīth, 1426 AH.
- Balādhurī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-. Ansāb al-ashrāf. Edited by Suhayl Zakār & Riyāḍ al-Ziriklī. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1417 AH.
- Bayhaqī, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-. Dalāʾil al-nubuwwa wa maʿrifat aḥwāl ṣāḥib al-sharīʿa. Edited by ʿAbd al-Muʿṭī Qalʿajī. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyya, 1405 AH.
- Ibn Ḥazm, ʿAlī b. Aḥmad. Jumhurat ansāb al-ʿarab. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmīyya, 1403 AH.
- Kulaynī, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-. Al-Kāfī. Edited by ʿAlī Akbar Ghaffārī & Muḥammad Ākhūndī. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmīyya, 1407 AH.
- Shāmī, Yūsuf b. Ḥātam al-. Al-Durr al-naẓīm fī manāqib al-aʾimma al-hāmīm. Qom: Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī, 1420 AH.
- Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-. Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk. Edited by Muḥammad Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm. Beirut: Dār al-Turāth, 1387 AH.