Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ( ar, إِبْرَاهِيم ٱبْن مُحَمَّد), was the son of the

Islamic prophet Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets ar ...

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...

and Maria al-Qibtiyya. He died at the age of 2.

Eclipse occurrence

In his book " ''Al-Bidāya wa-n-Nihāya''" Ibn Kathir mentions that Ibrahim died on Thursday 10 Rabi' al-Awwal 10 AH, and on the same day right after his death, eclipse of the sun occurred, so people at the moment started talking that

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is showing his condolences to his prophet by eclipsing the Sun.

, not wanting his companions to fall into Fitna by ascribing divinities to him or his son, stood at the mosque and said:

Illness and death

Muhammad's wife, and the mother of believers, Ibrahim's mother was an

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ian woman who came from

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official to Muhammad in 628. According to

Ibn Kathir Abū al-Fiḍā’ ‘Imād ad-Dīn Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī al-Damishqī (Arabic: إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد; – 1373), known as Ibn Kathīr (, was ...

, quoting

Ibn Sa'd Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd ( ar, ابن سعد) and nicknamed ''Scribe of Waqidi'' (''Katib al-Waqidi''), was a scholar and Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 ...

, he was born in the last month of the year 8 AH, equivalent of 630 CE.Ibn Kathir, quoting Ibn Saad
/ref> Muslim scholars such as

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Abū al-Ḥusayn ‘Asākir ad-Dīn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshādh al-Qushayrī an-Naysābūrī ( ar, أبو الحسين عساكر الدين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد بن كوشاذ ...

and

Al-Nasa'i Al-Nasāʾī (214 – 303 AH; 829 – 915 CE), full name Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnān al-Nasāʾī, (variant: Abu Abdel-rahman Ahmed ibn Shua'ib ibn Ali ibn Sinan ibn Bahr ibn Dinar Al-Khurasani ...

mention that Al-Waqidi is not reliable and is not trustworthy to be quoted. The child was named after

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(or Ibrahim in Arabic) the

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prophet revered in

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and

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traditions. Ibrahim was placed in the care of a nurse called Umm Sayf, wife of Abu Sayf, the blacksmith, in the tradition of the Arabs of the time, to whom Muhammad gave some goats to complement her milk supply. Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Translated by Isma'il Razi A. al-Faruqi, ''The Life of Muhammad'', American Trust Publications, 1976,

/ref> When he fell ill he was moved to a date orchard near the residence of his mother, under the care of her and her sister Sirin. When it was clear that he would not likely survive, Muhammad was informed. His reaction to the news is reported as:

Burial

Muhammad is also reported as having informed Maria and Sirin that Ibrahim would have his own nurse in

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. Different accounts relate that the

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for Ibrahim was performed by either Umm Burdah, or al-Fadl ibn ʿAbbas, in preparation for burial. Thereafter, he was carried to the cemetery upon a little bier by Muhammad, his uncle al-ʿAbbas, and others. Here, after a funeral prayer led by Muhammad, he was interred. Muhammad then filled the grave with sand, sprinkled some water upon it, and placed a landmark on it, saying that "Tombstones do neither good nor ill, but they help appease the living. Anything that man does, God wishes him to do well."

Siblings

* Qasim ibn Muhammad * Abdullah ibn Muhammad * Zainab bint Muhammad * Ruqayya bint Muhammad * Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad * Fatimah al-Zahra bint Muhammad

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