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 "id": "person/umm-jamil",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "umm-jamil",
 "label": {
  "en": "Umm Jamil",
  "ar": "أم جميل"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Wife of Abu Lahab and sister of Abu Sufyan; remembered in the sources for harassing the Prophet — the 'carrier of wood' of Qur'an 111 in the commentators' reading.",
  "ar": "زوجة أبي لهب وأخت أبي سفيان؛ تذكرها المصادر بأذاها للنبي — «حمالة الحطب» في قراءة المفسرين لسورة المسد."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "anti-muslim-hatred"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 565.0019507587424,
  "latest": 566.0012868162617
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0565~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أروى بنت حرب بن أمية"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0565~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "person/muhammad",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0613~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The sources describe her carrying thorns to scatter in the Prophet's path.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "Of the Meccan elite and its traditional cult.",
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1953-mecca"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abraha",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/khadija",
  "person/mutim-ibn-adi",
  "person/sumayya-bint-khayyat",
  "person/umm-ayman"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/abu-lahab",
   "type": "spouse_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
   "type": "sibling_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-umayya",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-111-4",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Commentators identify her as the 'carrier of wood' of sura 111.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/persecution-of-mustadafin",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "تحمل الشوك فتضعه في طريق النبي وبابه",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/mecca",
  "event/abu-talib-gathers-clans",
  "group/quraysh",
  "person/abu-lahab",
  "event/persecution-of-mustadafin",
  "person/sumayya-bint-khayyat",
  "person/abu-jahl",
  "person/hind-bint-utba"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}