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Umm Jamil bint Harb
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Background Information
• the Prophet (s) came to the Quraysh announcing his prophethood
• Abu Lahab stood up and said, "Have you gathered us for this? May you perish." Therefore Allah revealed the first ayah of Surah Al-Lahab which translated to "Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab and perish he".
• Abu Lahab said, ''Even if what my nephew has said is true, I will save myself from the torment of the Day of Judgement with my wealth and my children" thus Allah revealed the second ayah "His wealth and his children will not benefit him".
Umm Jamil bint Harb
(Arwa)
Family
• wife of Abu Lahab, making her the aunt of the Prophet Muhammad (s)
• daughter of Harb Ibn Ummaya, a chief of Makkah
• sister of Abu Suffyan
Opposition to Muhammad (s)
Surah Al-Masad (111)
• Her and Abu Lahab opposed the Prophets (s) teachings. When paradise was promised to the believers Abu Lahab blew on his hands and said, "May you perish. I can see nothing in you of the things that Muhammad says." Following that was the revelation of Surah Lahab.
Opposition to Muhammad (s)
Surah Al-Lahab
Hadith and Narrations
1. May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.
2. His wealth will not avail him or that which he gained.
3. He will [enter to] burn in a fire [blazing] flame.
4. And his wife [as well] - the carrier of firewood.
5. Around her neck is a rope of [twisted] fiber.
• Ibn Ishaq narrated that Umm Jamil was referred to as "the carrier of firewood" because she carried thorns and cast them in the Prophets path.
• Ibh Kathir states that this title referred to her punishment in the Hellfire where she will perish and be helping to administer the punishment of her husband on the Day of Judgement.
Opposition to Muhammad (s)
Counterblast
Umm Jamil's Poem
We reject the reprobate,
His words we repudiate,
His religion we loathe and hate.
• Umm Jamil went looking for Muhammad (s) one day and happened to come across Abu Bakr instead. She asked him, "For I have been told that he is satirizing me. If I had found him, I would have smashed his mouth with this stone." She then recited a poem and left, not realizing that Muhammad (s) had been sitting next to Abu Bakr.