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'ABDU 'LLAH عبد الله. The father of Muhammad. He was the youngest son of 'Abdul'l-Mattalib. During the pregnancy of his wife Aminah, he set out on a mercantile expedition to Gaza in the south of Palestine, and on his way back he sickened and died at al-Madinah, before the birth of his son Muhammad. Both of Muhammad's parents died in the state of <em>jāhiliyya, </em>or pre-Islamic enlightenment and are considered<em> ahl al-fatra , </em>meaning "people of interval". The interval being the time between the two prophets of Jesus and Muhammad. Modern Muslim writers have concluded that people living in such a time at their death were tested and not necessarily destined for hell.   (Katibu'l-Wackidi, p. 18; Muir's Life of Mahomet, vol. i. p.l1.)

Based on <a href="https://www.juancole.com/library/dictionary-of-islam-hughes">Hughes, Dictionary of Islam</a> <a href="http://referenceworks.brillonline.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/abdallah-b-abd-al-muttalib-COM_23550?s.num=0&s.rows=20&s.mode=DEFAULT&s.f.s2_parent=encyclopaedia-of-islam-3&s.start=0&s.q=dabdab+abd+al+muttalib"> Ecyclopaedia of Islam, Three</a>

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