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 "id": "event/death-of-abd-al-muttalib",
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 "slug": "death-of-abd-al-muttalib",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وفاة عبد المطلب وكفالة أبي طالب",
  "en": "Death of Abd al-Muttalib and Abu Talib's guardianship"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مات عبد المطلب بمكة ولحفيده محمد ثماني سنوات وشهران وعشرة أيام، بعد أن رقّ عليه رقة لم يرقّها على أحد من أولاده، ورأى قبل وفاته أن يعهد بكفالته إلى عمه أبي طالب شقيق أبيه، فنهض أبو طالب بحقه وظل فوق أربعين سنة يحميه.",
  "en": "Abd al-Muttalib died at Mecca when his grandson Muhammad was eight years, two months and ten days old, having shown him a tenderness he showed none of his sons; before dying he entrusted the boy to his uncle Abu Talib, full brother of his father, who took up the charge and protected him for over forty years."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 578.0015332279238,
  "latest": 579.0008692854431
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0578~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "لا يذكر الكتاب سنة؛ يضع الوفاة ولعمر الحفيد ثماني سنوات وشهرين وعشرة أيام من عام الفيل (الرحيق ص58؛ تلقيح فهوم أهل الأثر ص7؛ ابن هشام 1/169).",
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   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0578~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "لا يذكر الكتاب سنة؛ يضع الوفاة ولعمر الحفيد ثماني سنوات وشهرين وعشرة أيام من عام الفيل (الرحيق ص58؛ تلقيح فهوم أهل الأثر ص7؛ ابن هشام 1/169).",
   "derived": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "death",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0578~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "لا يذكر الكتاب سنة؛ يضع الوفاة ولعمر الحفيد ثماني سنوات وشهرين وعشرة أيام من عام الفيل (الرحيق ص58؛ تلقيح فهوم أهل الأثر ص7؛ ابن هشام 1/169).",
    "derived": true,
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
     "source/talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr"
    ]
   }
  },
  "participants": [
   {
    "target": "person/abd-al-muttalib",
    "role": "المتوفى"
   },
   {
    "target": "person/muhammad",
    "role": "الحفيد اليتيم"
   },
   {
    "target": "person/abu-talib",
    "role": "الكافل بعده"
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الرحيق المختوم ص54–58 نقلاً عن ابن هشام 1/159–169 وتلقيح فهوم أهل الأثر ص4–7 وزاد المعاد 1/18–19 وصحيح مسلم 1/92 ومختصر سيرة الرسول للنجدي ص12–16",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "raheeq-prose-batch-6a"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira",
   "source/talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-fable-5-1); al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 57–58"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مات [[person/abd-al-muttalib|عبد المطلب]] بمكة ولحفيده [[person/muhammad|محمد]] ثماني سنوات وشهران وعشرة أيام، ورأى قبل وفاته أن يعهد بكفالته إلى عمه [[person/abu-talib|أبي طالب]] شقيق أبيه {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58} {cite:talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr p.7} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/169}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجد العطوف",
     "markdown": "يصف المؤلف مشاعر الحنوّ التي كانت تربو في فؤاد عبد المطلب نحو حفيده اليتيم بعد [[event/death-of-amina|وفاة أمه]]، فرقّ عليه رقة لم يرقّها على أحد من أولاده، وكان لا يدعه لوحدته بل يؤثره على أولاده {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.57}. وينقل عن ابن هشام أن فراشاً كان يوضع لعبد المطلب في ظل الكعبة لا يجلس عليه أحد من بنيه إجلالاً له، فكان الغلام يأتي حتى يجلس عليه، فيأخذه أعمامه ليؤخّروه عنه، فيقول عبد المطلب: دعوا ابني هذا فإن له لشأناً، ثم يجلس معه على فراشه ويمسح ظهره بيده ويسرّه ما يراه يصنع {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.57} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/168}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة والعهد بالكفالة",
     "markdown": "لثماني سنوات وشهرين وعشرة أيام من عمر الغلام توفي جده عبد المطلب بمكة، ورأى قبل وفاته أن يعهد بكفالة حفيده إلى عمه أبي طالب شقيق أبيه {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58} {cite:talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr p.7} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/169}. فنهض أبو طالب بحق ابن أخيه على أكمل وجه، وضمّه إلى ولده وقدّمه عليهم، واختصه بفضل احترام وتقدير، وظل فوق أربعين سنة يعزّ جانبه ويبسط عليه حمايته ويصادق ويخاصم من أجله {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظات للباحثين",
     "markdown": "- سنة الوفاة في بطاقة الحدث مشتقة من عمر الحفيد وعام الفيل؛ الكتاب لا يسمّي سنة.\n- «شقيق أبيه»: أي أن أبا طالب وعبد الله من أم واحدة هي [[person/fatima-bint-amr|فاطمة بنت عمرو]]، وهو ما يفهم من عبارة الكتاب ولم يصرّح به في فصل الأسرة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان جد النبي يحبه حباً كبيراً ويجلسه معه على فراشه عند الكعبة. ولما بلغ النبي ثماني سنين مات جده، فتولى عمه أبو طالب رعايته وحمايته بقية عمره."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-abd-al-muttalib",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "[[person/abd-al-muttalib|Abd al-Muttalib]] died in Mecca when his grandson [[person/muhammad|Muhammad]] was eight years, two months and ten days old. Before his death he resolved to entrust the guardianship of the boy to his uncle [[person/abu-talib|Abu Talib]], his father's full brother. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58} {cite:talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr p.7} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/169}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The tender grandfather",
     "markdown": "The author describes the tenderness that grew in Abd al-Muttalib's heart toward his orphaned grandson after [[event/death-of-amina|the death of his mother]]. He was more tender to him than to any of his sons, and would not leave him alone but preferred him over his own sons. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.57} He relates from Ibn Hisham that a mat would be set for Abd al-Muttalib in the shade of the Ka'ba, which none of his sons would sit on out of reverence for him. The boy would come and sit on it, and his uncles would take hold of him to keep him away, but Abd al-Muttalib would say: \"Leave my son, for he has a great destiny.\" He would sit with him on his mat, stroke his back with his hand, and be pleased by what he saw him do. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.57} {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/168}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The death and the guardianship",
     "markdown": "Two months and ten days after the boy was eight years old, his grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died in Mecca, and before his death he resolved to entrust the guardianship of his grandson to his uncle Abu Talib, his father's full brother. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58} {cite:talqih-fuhum-ahl-al-athr p.7} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/169} Abu Talib took up his nephew's right in the most complete way. He took him into his own children, put him before them, and singled him out with special honour and esteem, and for more than forty years he strengthened his side, extended his protection to him, and befriended and quarrelled on his account. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.58}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Notes for researchers",
     "markdown": "- The year of death in the event record is derived from the boy's age and the Year of the Elephant. The book does not name a year.\n- \"Full brother of his father\": the book's wording implies that Abu Talib and Abd Allah shared one mother, [[person/fatima-bint-amr|Fatima bint Amr]], though the book does not state this explicitly in its section on the family."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "The grandfather of the Prophet loved him very much, and made him sit with him on his mat beside the Ka'ba. When the Prophet was eight years old, his grandfather died, and his uncle Abu Talib took charge of his care and protection for the rest of his life."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-abd-al-muttalib",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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  "event/marriage-to-khadija",
  "event/marriage-to-sawda",
  "event/partition-of-meccan-offices",
  "event/recovery-of-abd-al-muttalib-rights",
  "event/settlement-of-hajar-and-ismail",
  "group/banu-hashim",
  "group/jurhum",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib"
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