Hubba bint Hulail () was the grandmother of
Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf
Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf (; ), born ʿAmr al-ʿUlā (), was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the progenitor of the ruling Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca. At some point in his life before his father's death ...
, thus the great-great-great-grandmother of the
Islamic prophet
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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 ...
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Biography
Hubbah was the daughter of Hulail
ibn Hubshiyyah
ibn Salul ibn Ka’b ibn Amr al-Khuza’i of
Banu Khuza'a who was the trustee and guardian of the
Ka‘bah (, 'Cube'). She married
Qusai ibn Kilab
Qusai ibn Kilab ibn Murrah (, ''Qusayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah''; ca. 400–480), also spelled Qusayy, Kusayy, Kusai, or Cossai, born Zayd (), was an Ishmaelite descendant of Abraham. Orphaned early on, he would rise to become chief of Mecca, an ...
and after her father died, the keys of the Kaaba were committed to her. Qusai, according to Hulail's will, had the trusteeship of the Kaaba after him.
Hubbah never gave up ambitious hopes for the line of her favourite son
Abd Manaf. Her two favourite grandsons were the twin sons
Amr and
Abd Shams, of
‘Ātikah bint Murrah. Hubbah hoped that the opportunities missed by Abd Manaf would be made up for in these grandsons, especially Amr, who seemed much more suitable for the role than any of the sons of
Abd al-Dar. He was dear to the ''‘ayn'' (, eye) of his grandmother Hubbah.
Family
Qusai ibn Kilab
Qusai ibn Kilab ibn Murrah (, ''Qusayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah''; ca. 400–480), also spelled Qusayy, Kusayy, Kusai, or Cossai, born Zayd (), was an Ishmaelite descendant of Abraham. Orphaned early on, he would rise to become chief of Mecca, an ...
had four sons by Hubbah:
dedicated to his house, Abdu’l Qusayy dedicated to himself,
Abd-al-Uzza ibn Qusai to his goddess (
Al-‘Uzzá
Al-ʻUzzá or al-ʻUzzā (, , ) was one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times and she was worshipped by the pre-Islamic Arabs along with Al-Lat and Manāt. A stone cube at Nakhla (near Mecca) was held sacred ...
) and
Abd Manaf ibn Qusai
Abd Manaf al-Mughirah ibn Qusai (, ''ʿAbd Manāf al-Mughīrah ibn Quṣayy'') was a Quraysh (tribe), Qurayshi and great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His father was Qusai ibn Kilab, Quṣai ibn Kilāb.
Abd Manaf's name, mea ...
to the idol revered by Hubbah. They also had two daughters, Takhmur and Barrah.
Abd Manaf's real name was 'Mughirah', and he also had the nickname 'al-Qamar' (the Moon) because he was handsome.
Hubbah was related to Muhammad in more than one way. Firstly, she was the great-great-grandmother of his father
Abdullah.
She was also the great-grandmother of Umm Habib and Abdul-Uzza, respectively the maternal grandmother and grandfather of Muhammad's mother
Aminah
Amina (or Aminah) is the loose transcription of two different Arabic female given names:
* ʾĀmina (Arabic: آمنة, also anglicized as ''Aaminah'' or '' Amna'') meaning "safe one, protected"
* ʾAmīna (Arabic: أمينة, also anglicized as ''A ...
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Family tree
* * indicates that the marriage order is disputed
* Note that direct lineage is marked in bold.
See also
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Family tree of Muhammad
This family tree is about the relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a family member of the family of Hashim and the Quraysh tribe which is ‘Adnani. "The ‘arabicised or arabicising Arabs’, on the contrary, are believed to be the des ...
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List of notable Hijazis
References
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
5th-century women
5th-century Arab people
Family of Muhammad
Sahabah ancestors
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