Birth of Allah's Beloved (ﷺ)

Hazrath Abdullah died in Al-Madinah, when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wa in the womb of his mother and his mother died when he was four years old. His grandfather died when he was eight years old and he entrusted him to the care of his uncle, Abu Talib.

The father of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) died when he was but a fetus in the womb of his mother and this is the ultimate and the highest level of orphanhood. It is mentioned in the Hadith: “And the vision of my mother, in which she said that it was as if a light was emitted from her body parts when I was born and this light illuminated the palaces of Ash- Sham."

“Amina Bint Wahb, the mother of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), said that someone came to her when she gave birth to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said, “You have given birth to the master of this nation, so when he is born into the earth, say, 'I place him under the protection of the One, from the evil of the envier, from every slave, whether good or evil; a Protector protects me and He is the Praiseworthy, the Exalted, until I see that he has attained his objective. And the sign of that will be that his birth will be accompanied by a light which will fill the palaces of Busra, in the land of Ash-Sham. So when he is born, name him Muhammad, for his name is in the Tawrah: Ahmad – he is praised by the occupants of the heaven and the occupants of the Earth and his name is in the Injeel: Ahmad – he is praised by the occupants of the heaven and the occupants of the Earth; and his name is in the Quran: Muhammad.' This and that necessitate that when she was pregnant with him and she saw, as if when he came out of her, the palaces of Ash-Sham were illuminated for him. Then, when she actually gave birth to him, she saw it with her own eyes, just as she had seen it in her vision."

When she gave birth to the Prophet, she sent a word to Abdul Muttalib via her slave girl. The slave girl said to Abdul Muttalib 'A boy has been born for you this night, so come and see him.'

So Abdul Muttalib took him inside the Ka‘bah, and he stood and supplicated and thanked Allah, the Almighty, the All-Powerful, saying,

All praise and thanks be to Allah, Who has given me, This fine, well-proportioned boy, While still in the cradle, he has become the leader of boys, I seek refuge for him by the house possessing corners, Until he has attained manhood, And until I see him of mature stature, I seek refuge for him from the one who hates, From the envier, of deranged mind, Until I see him raising his voice, It is you who have been named in the Quran, In confirmed, oft-recited Scriptures, Ahmad is written on the tongue.

Abbas Ibn Abdul Muttalib (May Allah be pleased with him) that he said, “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was born circumcised and happy.” He added, “His grandfather, ‘Abdul Muttalib was amazed by this and saw it as a good omen." He said, “This child of mine shall certainly have an important position.” And this proved to be the case.”

Whenever a child was born among Quraish at night, they would send it to the women of Quraish until the morning and they would invert an earthenware pot over it, so when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was born, Abdul Muttalib sent him to the women of Quraish and they upturned an earthenware pot over him; then in the morning, they came and found that the pot had cracked into two and they found that his eyes were open and he was staring toward the heaven. Then Abdul Mittalib came to them and they confided to him, 'We have never seen a newborn like him; we found the earthenware pot had cracked into two over him and we found his eyes open and he was staring at the heaven.' He said, 'Take care of him, for I hope that he will have an important position or that he will attain goodness.' Then on the seventh day, an animal was sacrificed for him and he invited Quraish to eat. When they had eaten, they said, 'O, Abdul Muttalib! Have you named this son of yours in honor of whom you have invited us?' He replied, 'I have named him Muhammad.' They asked, 'What caused you to favor that name over the names of his family members?' He said, 'I wanted Allah to praise him in the heaven and His creation to praise him on the Earth'.” The scholars of language said that everything in which all good qualities are combined is called Muhammad.

When Abu Lahab died, one of his relatives saw him in a dream in a very bad state and asked him, “What have you encountered?” Abu Lahab said, “I have not found any good since I left you, except that I have been given water to drink in this (the space between his thumb and other fingers) and that is because of my manumitting (act of freeing a slave) Thuwaibah.