Al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Muttalib (), was the son of
Abd al-Muttalib and
Fatima bint Amr, hence an uncle of
Muhammad
Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...
. He was full brother to
Abu Talib and to Muhammad's father
Abdullah.
Biography
He married Atika bint Abi Wahb of the
Makhzum clan, and they had four daughters and one son.
#Duba'a, who married
Miqdad ibn Aswad and had Abd Allah ibn Miqdad and Karima bint Miqdad.
#Umm al-Hakam (or Umm Hakim), who married
Rabi'ah ibn al-Harith and had nine children.
#Safiyya.
#Umm al-Zubayr.
#Abd Allah.
After the death of his eldest half-brother,
Al-Harith, Al-Zubayr was next in line. With his brother Abu Talib, he took responsibility for the family obligation to provide food and drink for the pilgrims. He also shared joint guardianship of the young Muhammad. It is said that he took Muhammad on a journey to Yemen 584 CE.
A tradition that Ibn Kathir calls "weak" states that he died 585. This is contradicted by several traditions that indicate that he was still alive many years later.
Al-Zubayr was the founder of the
order of chivalry
An order of chivalry, order of knighthood, chivalric order, or equestrian order is a society, fellowship and college of knights, typically founded during or inspired by the original Catholic military orders of the Crusades ( 1099–1291) and ...
known as the
Hilf al-Fudul. This was a movement formed in Mecca in May 591 (soon after the end of the
Sacrilegious War) for the suppression of violence and injustice. He is supposed to have said about the pact:
:I swore, "Let’s make a pact against them, though we're all members of one tribe. We'll call it ''al-Fudul''; if we make a pact by it, the stranger could overcome those under local protection, and those who go around the
Kaaba
The Kaaba (), also spelled Kaba, Kabah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaba al-Musharrafa (), is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and Holiest sites in Islam, holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Sa ...
will know that we reject injustice and will prevent all things shameful ... ''Al-Fudul'' made a pact and alliance that no evildoer shall dwell in Mecca's heart. This was a matter they firmly agreed; and so the protected neighbour and the unprotected stranger are safe among them."
Al-Zubayr was among the many Quraysh who participated in the rebuilding of the Kaaba in 605. At first they were afraid to commence, for a large snake took up residence in the sanctuary. One day an eagle carried off the snake, leaving the builders free to work. Al-Zubayr, very impressed by this, composed a poem describing how "''down came the eagle, deadly straight in its swoop; it bore it away ...''"
[Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume pp. 84-87.]
Notable relatives and family tree
See also
*
Zubayr (name)
References
External links
* Zubair
* Duba'ah
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Family of Muhammad
7th-century Arab people
Banu Hashim