Zād al-Maʿād - Ibn al-Qayyim - (1/93)

and al-Ghaydāq, whose name was Musʿab, though some said it was Nawfal. Some also included al-Awwām. Only Hamzah and al-Abbās embraced Islam.

His paternal aunts were Safiyyah, the mother of al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwām; Ātikah; Barrah; Arwā; Umaymah; and Umm Hakīm al-Baydāʾ. Safiyyah embraced Islam. There is disagreement over whether Ātikah and Arwā embraced Islam; some scholars considered the report of Arwā’s conversion correct (1).

The eldest of his paternal uncles was al-Hārith, and the youngest was al-Abbās, whose line of descendants continued (2), until his offspring filled the earth. It is said that they were counted during the reign of al-Maʾmūn and numbered six hundred thousand. This claim is clearly open to question. Abū Tālib likewise left descendants (3), and they were numerous; al-Hārith and Abū Lahab also left descendants.

Some considered Abd al-Kaʿbah (4) and al-Muqawwim to be the same person, while others considered al-Ghaydāq and Hajl to be the same person.

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On His Wives, Peace and Blessings Be upon Him

His first wife was Khadījah bint Khuwaylid, of the Quraysh tribe and the clan of Asad. He married her before prophethood, when she was forty years old. He married no other woman during her lifetime, and all his children were born to her except Ibrāhīm.

(1) See al-Mukhtasar al-kabīr (p. 85). (2) This is the reading in all the manuscripts. I suspect that “lahu” (“for him”) is a corruption of “kathura” (“became numerous”). (3) ص: “‘qb”. (4) The Indian edition—and the other editions that followed it—reads “al-Hārith”, while noting in its footnote the reading found in our manuscripts.

والغَيداق واسمه مصعب، وقيل: نوفل. وزاد بعضهم: العوَّام. ولم يُسلم منهم إلا حمزة والعباس. وأما عمَّاته، فصفية أم الزبير بن العوَّام، وعاتكة، وبَرَّة، وأروى، وأميمة، وأم حكيم البيضاء. أسلم منهن صفية. واختلف في إسلام عاتكة وأروى، وصحَّح بعضهم إسلام أروى (١). وأسنُّ أعمامه الحارث. وأصغرهم سنًّا: العباس، والعقب منه له (٢) حتى ملأ ولده الأرض. وقيل: أُحْصُوا في زمن المأمون، فبلغوا ستمائة ألف. وفي ذلك نظرٌ لا يخفى. وكذلك أعقَب (٣) أبو طالب وأكثَر، والحارث، وأبو لهب. وجعل بعضهم عبد الكعبة (٤) والمقوّم واحدًا، وبعضهم الغَيداق وحَجْلًا واحدًا. فصل في أزواجه ﷺ أولاهن خديجة بنت خويلد القرشية الأسدية. تزوَّج بها قبل النبوة، ولها أربعون سنةً. ولم يتزوَّج عليها حتى ماتت، وأولاده كلُّهم منها إلا إبراهيم.

(١) انظر: «المختصر الكبير» (ص ٨٥). (٢) كذا في الأصول كلها، وأخشى أن يكون «له» تحريف «كثر». (٣) ص: «عقب». (٤) في الطبعة الهندية ــ وتابعتها الطبعات الأخرى ــ: «الحارث» مع التنبيه في حاشيتها على ما في أصولنا.