{
 "id": "person/abd-al-muttalib",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "abd-al-muttalib",
 "label": {
  "en": "Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim",
  "ar": "عبد المطلب بن هاشم"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "The Prophet Muhammad's grandfather and guardian, a leading elder of Quraysh remembered in tradition for restoring the well of Zamzam and leading Mecca at the time of Abraha's campaign.",
  "ar": "جدّ النبي محمد وكافله، ومن كبار شيوخ قريش، يُذكر في التقليد بحفره بئر زمزم وبقيادته مكة زمن حملة أبرهة."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 497.003292333176,
  "latest": 579.0008692854431
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0497~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Very approximate; the chronology of the Prophet's grandfather is not firmly recorded.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0578~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally when the Prophet was about eight years old.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "شيبة بن هاشم بن عبد مناف"
   },
   {
    "kind": "alternate",
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "Shayba ibn Hashim"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0497~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Very approximate; the chronology of the Prophet's grandfather is not firmly recorded.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0578~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally when the Prophet was about eight years old.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "protector",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0578~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Guardian of the orphaned Muhammad after the death of his mother Amina.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "official",
    "toward": "group/quraysh",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Remembered as holder of the offices of siqaya (water for pilgrims) and rifada (feeding) among Quraysh.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "family-of-the-prophet",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "other",
    "basis": "debated",
    "note": "Most sources place him in Mecca's polytheist milieu; some reports in tradition call him a hanif who rejected idols. Recorded as debated.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/watt-1953-mecca"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/watt-1953-mecca"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "عبد المطلب جد النبي محمد وكافله بعد وفاة أمه، وكبير شيوخ مكة في الجيل الذي سبق الإسلام، يُذكر بحفره بئر زمزم."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وُلد بيثرب (المدينة لاحقًا) في نسل [[person/hashim-ibn-abd-manaf|هاشم بن عبد مناف]] {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}، فعلا حتى ساد قريشًا. وينسب إليه التراث كشف بئر زمزم المطموسة عند الكعبة، وشرف سقاية الحجيج ورفادتهم {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nتضعه السيرة على رأس مكة في حملة [[person/abraha|أبرهة]]، الواقعة المعروفة بعام الفيل — وهو العام نفسه الذي تضعه الرواية لمولد النبي [[event/year-of-the-elephant-and-birth|عام الفيل ومولد النبي]] {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. وكفل اليتيم محمدًا نحو سنة 578م ومات بعده بقليل، فنقل الغلام إلى ابنه [[person/abu-talib|أبي طالب]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "بيته — بنو هاشم — هو الخيط الممتد في القصة كلها: العشيرة التي أنجبت النبي وحمته حين أعرض عنه غيرها، ومنها خرج مدعو الحكم في الأزمنة اللاحقة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "عبد المطلب هو الجد الذي اعتنى بمحمد بعد موت أبويه، وأعاد اكتشاف بئر زمزم الشهيرة في مكة."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abd-al-muttalib",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Abd al-Muttalib was the Prophet Muhammad's grandfather and his guardian after his mother's death — the leading elder of Mecca in the generation before Islam, remembered for restoring the well of Zamzam."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Born in Yathrib (later Medina) to the line of [[person/hashim-ibn-abd-manaf]] {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}, he rose to lead Quraysh. Tradition credits him with rediscovering the buried well of Zamzam beside the Kaaba, and with the offices of watering and feeding the pilgrims {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nThe sira places him at Mecca's head during the campaign of [[person/abraha]], the event remembered as the 'Year of the Elephant' — the same year the tradition gives for the Prophet's birth [[event/year-of-the-elephant-and-birth]] {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}. He became guardian of the orphaned Muhammad about 578 CE and died not long after, passing the boy to his son [[person/abu-talib]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "His household — Banu Hashim — is the thread through the whole story: the clan that produced the Prophet, protected him when others would not, and gave the later age its claimants to rule."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Abd al-Muttalib was the grandfather who looked after Muhammad when his parents had died, and who rediscovered the famous well of Zamzam in Mecca."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/abd-al-muttalib",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
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  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/khadija",
  "person/mutim-ibn-adi",
  "person/waraqa-ibn-nawfal",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/sumayya-bint-khayyat"
 ],
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   "to": "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
   "type": "parent_of",
   "inverse": true
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  {
   "to": "event/recovery-of-abd-al-muttalib-rights",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false
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  {
   "to": "event/vow-and-lot-of-abd-al-muttalib",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false
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   "type": "spouse_of",
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   "to": "place/medina",
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   "inverse": false,
   "note": "Tradition places his birth in Yathrib, his mother's town."
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   "inverse": false
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  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
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   "to": "person/abdullah-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
   "type": "parent_of",
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   "to": "person/arwa-bint-abd-al-muttalib",
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   "inverse": true
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   "to": "person/safiyya-bint-abd-al-muttalib",
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   "to": "event/death-of-amina",
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  "place/mecca",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "group/banu-hashim",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/muhammad",
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  "person/abu-lahab",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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