Abu Lahab was one of the Meccan Qurayshi leaders who opposed Muhammad and was condemned in Surat Al-Masad of the Quran.
16 Facts About Abu Lahab
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Abu Lahab was born in Mecca in c 549 CE, the son of Abdul Muttalib, chief of the Hashim clan, and the paternal uncle of Muhammad.
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Abu Lahab was thus a paternal half-brother of Abdullah, father of Muhammad.
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Abu Lahab was related to Muhammad as half-uncle in another way, since Muhammad's grandmother was Fatimah bint 'Amr of the Banu Makhzum.
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Abu Lahab is described as "an artful spruce fellow with two locks of hair, wearing an Aden cloak" and as "very generous".
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Abu Lahab had married two of his sons to the daughters of Khadija and Muhammad, 'Utbah to Ruqayyah and Utaybah to Umm Kulthum.
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However, after Prophet of Islam openly started preaching verses of Quran and islamic Tawhid, Abu Lahab forced his sons to refuse marriage terms, thus the two daughters were divorced at an early age, and they returned to the family home.
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Abu Lahab was the only member of Banu Hashim who supported the boycott and did not join his clan.
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Abu Lahab renounced his affiliation with the Hashim clan and remained in Mecca.
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Abu Lahab Talib died in 620, From this time, Muhammad went around the trade fairs and markets to tell the Arab tribes that he was a prophet and call them to worship Allah.
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Muhammad and most of the Muslims left Mecca in 622, and Abu Lahab had no further direct interaction with his nephew.
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Abu Lahab went to the large tent of Zamzam, "his face as black as thunder".
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The smell from Abu Lahab's wound was so repulsive that nobody could come near him.
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Abu Lahab's family left his decaying body decomposing in his home for two or three nights until a neighbour rebuked them.
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Abu Lahab told them that he had experienced no comfort in the Afterlife, but that his sufferings had been remitted "this much" because of his one virtuous deed of manumitting his slave Thuwayba, who had briefly nursed Muhammad as foster-mother.
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In Islamic tradition, Abu Lahab is believed to be described in Surat al-Masad, the 111th surah in the Quran, as a reaction to an incident he was involved in, in relation to Muhammad, although there is controversy as to whether the Arabic phrase abu lahab, in the context of the Quran, refers to 'Abd al-'Uzza ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib, or something else.