Abdul Muttalib received the sad news with great sorrows and...

Abdul Muttalib received the sad news with great sorrows and so did Aaminah who waited impatiently for the return of her husband who died while yet in the prime of his youth. Abdullah left after him five camels, a herd of sheep, and a maid who was Umm Aymen the Prophet’s nursemaid. [2] The mother: Aaminah The noble lady, who got the honor of bearing the Prophet (a.s.), was Aamina bint Wahab from bani Zuhrah, one of the glorious Arab tribes.

Aaminah was the best young woman of Quraysh in lineage and position. [3] Most of her family lived in Medina. The [1] The Prophet to be my son. [2] The Life of Muhammad (a.s.), by Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal, p. 106. [3] As-Seera an-Nabawiyyah, by Dahlan, vol. 1 p. 28. bani Zuhrah were pride of their uncleship to the Prophet (a.s.). They often proudly said, “We are the Prophet’s uncles.” [1] Aaminah got married to Abdullah who was the best young man of Quraysh.

Because of this marriage she was envied by the young women of Quraysh who all wished to get married to Abdullah. Aaminah’s vision Aaminah saw in sleep a strange vision and she told her husband about it saying, “I saw as if a ray of light emerged from my being and illuminated the world around me until I saw by it the palaces of Busra in the land of Sham, and I heard a caller saying to me: you have born the master of this nation…” [2] Her vision was true.

She bore the master of all the creatures to whom all the world had submitted. Aaminah said about the blessing of her newborn baby, “Since the first day when I bore my son until the moment when I gave birth to him, I did not feel any pain, and even I did not feel his weight.

In fact, I did not feel that I had born him until a comer came to me while I was between sleep and wakefulness and said to me, ‘Did you feel you were pregnant?’ As if I said, ‘I do not know.’ He said, ‘You have born the master of this nation and its prophet. Know that!’” [3] The shining of light The world shone, and breezes from the mercy of Allah breezed to save man from the woes of ignorance and sins of life.

It was the great mercy that Allah had endowed his people with to guide [1] A’lam an-Nisa’, vol. 1 p. 18. [2] Hayat ar-Rasool al-Mustafa (the life of the messenger), vol. 1 p. 100. [3] The life of Muhammad, by Abdul Haleem, p. 476. them to the best. It was the birth of (a.s.) which was the greatest event in the history of the world and the best kindness and blessing from Allah the Almighty to His people.