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Amina bint Wahb
(dates unknown)
BIRTH
UNKNOWN
PLACE
Unknown
DEATH
UNKNOWN
PLACE
Al-Abwa, Arabia
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
(dates unknown)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Amina bint Wahb was Muhammad’s mother and Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib’s wife in early Islamic biographical tradition. She belonged to the Banu Zuhra branch of Quraysh.
EARLY LIFE
Traditional genealogies name Wahb ibn Abd Manaf as Amina’s father. They place her marriage to Abdullah in Mecca, but do not establish a reliable birth date.
CAREER
DEATH
According to early Islamic tradition, Amina died at al-Abwa while returning from Yathrib with the young Muhammad, commonly said to have been about six years old.
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