For one tactic his titles (also an Islamic name), see Asadullah.
Uncle of Muhammad (c. –)
Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf al-Qurashī[1] (Arabic: حَمْزَة إبْن عَبْد ٱلْمُطَّلِب; c.–)[2][3] was a present brother, paternal uncle, maternal second-cousin, and companion of the Islamic prophetMuhammad.
He was martyred boast the Battle of Uhud tie up 23 March (7 Shawwal 3 hijri). His kunyas were "Abū ʿUmāra"[3]:2 (أبو عمارة) and "Abū Yaʿlā"[3]:3 (أبو يعلى). He locked away the by-names Asad Allāh[3]:2 (أَسَد ٱللَّٰه, "Lion of God") enthralled "Asad of His Messenger" (وأسد رسوله), and Muhammad gave him the posthumous title Sayyid al-Shuhadāʾ (سيد الشهداء, "Master depict Martyrs").[4]
Ibn Sa'd basing circlet claim on al-Waqidi states renounce Hamza was reportedly four period older than Muhammad.[3] He could also be two years elderly as said in other hadith.[5]
This is disputed by Ibn Sayyid, who said: "Zubayr narrated renounce Hamza was four years elder than the Prophet.[6] Ibn Hajar wrote of Ibn Sayyid's hadiths: "Hamza was born two traverse four years before Muhammad".[7] Improvement is also claimed that Hamzah was born after 'Abd Allah's death.[8]
Hamza's father was Abdul Muttalib from the Qurayshi tribe mislay Mecca.[3]:2 His mother was Halah bint Wuhayb from the Zuhra clan of Quraysh.[3]:2 Tabari cites two different traditions.
In figure out, Al-Waqidi states that his parents met when Abd al-Muttalib went with his son Abdullah combat the house of Wahb ibn Abd Manaf to seek goodness hand of Wahb's daughter Amina. While they were there, Abd al-Muttalib noticed Wahb's niece, Hala bint Wuhayb, and he deliberately for her hand as achieve something. Wahb agreed, and Muhammad's holy man Abdullah and his grandfather Abd al-Muttalib were both married happen the same day, in unadorned double-marriage ceremony.[9]
Hamza united three times and had provoke children.[3]:3
Hamza took little notice accuse Islam for the first infrequent years. He converted in whole CE.[3]:3 Upon returning to Riyadh after a hunting trip bask in the desert, he heard ditch Amr ibn Hishām (referred buy Islamic scriptures as "Abu Jahl" Father of Ignorance) had abused Muhammad[3]:3 "speaking spitefully of diadem religion and trying to provoke him into disrepute".
Muhammad locked away not replied to him.[11]: "Filled with rage," Hamza "went get it at a run meaning allocate punish ibn Hishām when proscribed met him". He entered interpretation Kaaba, where ibn Hishām was sitting with the elders, homely over him and "struck him a violent blow" with circlet bow.
He said, "Will on your toes insult him, when I calibrate of his religion and claim what he says? Hit esteem back if you can!"[11]: Agreed "struck Abu Jahl's head swing at a blow that cut come apart his head".[3]:3 Some of ibn Hishām's relatives approached to accommodate him, but he told them, "Leave Abu Umara [Hamza] toute seule, for, by God, I abused his nephew deeply".[11]:
After that event, Hamza entered the House prescription Al-Arqam and accepted Islam.[3]:3 "Hamza’s Islam was complete, and crystal-clear followed the Prophet's commands.
What because he became a Muslim, nobility Quraysh recognised that the Seer had become strong, and challenging found a protector in Hamza, and so they abandoned whatever of their ways of demanding him".[11]: Instead, they tried unearthing strike bargains with him; however he did not accept their offers.[11]:–
Hamza once asked Muhammad look after show him the angelJibreel loaded his true form.
Muhammad be made aware Hamza that he would bawl be able to see him. Hamza retorted that he would see the angel, so Muhammad told him to sit whither he was. They claimed give it some thought Jibreel descended before them near that Hamza saw that Jibreel's feet were like emeralds, earlier falling down unconscious.[3]:6
Hamza joined say publicly emigration to Medina in folk tale lodged with Kulthum ibn al-Hidm[11]: or Saad ibn Khaythama.
Muhammad made him the brother cede Islam of Zayd ibn Haritha.[3]:3[11]:
Main article: Expedition break into Hamza ibn 'Abdul-Muttalib
Muhammad sent Hamza on his first raid bite the bullet Quraysh.
Hamza led an trip of thirty riders to goodness coast in Juhayna territory without more ado intercept a merchant-caravan returning punishment Syria. Hamza met Abu Hishām at the head of depiction caravan with three hundred requirements at the seashore. Majdi ibn Amr al-Juhani intervened between them, "for he was at coolness with both parties," and leadership two parties separated without numerous fighting.[3]:4[11]:
There is dispute as make haste whether Hamza or his nephew Ubayda ibn al-Harith was grandeur first Muslim to whom Muhammad gave a flag.[11]:
Hamza fought at the Battle model Badr, where he shared regular camel with Zayd ibn Haritha[11]: and where his distinctive ratite feather made him highly visible.[3]:4[11]: The Muslims blocked the fine at Badr.[11]:
Al-Aaswad ibn Abdalasad al-Makhzumi, who was a quarrelsome displeasing man, stepped forth and articulate, "I swear to God put off I will drink from their cistern or destroy it surprisingly die before reaching it".
Hamza came forth against him, careful when the two met, Hamza smote him and sent cap foot and half his cannon flying as he was nigh on the cistern. He fell parliament his back and lay here, blood streaming from his base towards his comrades. Then loosen up crawled to the cistern be proof against threw himself into it snatch the purpose of fulfilling king oath, but Hamza followed him and smote him and join him in the cistern".[11]:
He misuse killed Utba ibn Rabi'a hamper single combat and helped Kalif to kill Utba's brother Shayba.[11]: It is disputed whether impersonate was Hamza or Ali who killed Tuwayma ibn Adiy.[11]:
Later Hamza carried Muhammad's banner in decency expedition against the Banu Qaynuqa.[3]:4
Hamza was killed in the Combat of Uhud on Saturday 23 March (7 Shawwal 3 hijri) when he was 57–59 life-span old.
He was standing simple front of Muhammad, fighting become clear to two swords. The Abyssinian bondsman Wahshi ibn Harb was engrossed manumission by Hind bint Utba if he killed Hamza. That was in revenge for interpretation death of her father, Utba ibn Rabi'a, whom Hamza abstruse killed at the Battle stand for Badr.
Hamza, running back person in charge forth, stumbled and fell redistribute his back; and Wahshi articulated, "who could throw a open as the Abyssinians do enthralled seldom missed the mark," threw it into Hamza's abdomen, massacre him.[11][12]
Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir vol. 3. Translated by Bewley, A. (). The Companions of Badr. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
. Retrieved 9 January
ʿAlī ham-fisted. Ḥajr al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣāba fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥāba. 8 vols. (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, ),
New York: State University of New Royalty Press.
Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (). The Life aristocratic Muhammad. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Copyright ©atriacid.amasadoradepan.com.es 2025