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Aminah’s Death
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Local English translation from the Arabic Seerah of Ibn Hisham; not an official published English edition.
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Read the corresponding Arabic sectionIbn Ishaq said that Aminah bint Wahb died when the Messenger of Allah was six years old. Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm narrated that she died at al-Abwa’, between Makkah and Medina, while returning with him from a visit to her maternal relatives among Banu Adi ibn al-Najjar. A note says that her grave is also said to be in the ravine of Abu Dharr in Makkah.