Utaybah bin abu lahab in islam
Utaybah bin abu lahab in islam
Abu lahab adalah!
Utbah ibn Abi Lahab
Cousin and Companion of Muhammad
ʿUtbah ibn Abī Lahab (Arabic: عتبة بن أبي لهب) was a first cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Biography
Born in Mecca, Utbah was the eldest son of Abu Lahab ibn Abdul-Muttalib and Umm Jamil bint Harb.[1] For several years, his family lived next door to Muhammad and Khadija.[2]
Utbah was engaged to his eight year old cousin Ruqayyah, the fourth child and second daughter of Muhammad, sometime prior to August 610.[3][4]
After Muhammad recited sura 111, "Perish the hands of Abu Lahab,"[5] Abu Lahab wanted to cut ties with him.
When Muhammad "openly preached to the Quraysh and showed them hostility," other Quraysh sympathised with Abu Lahab's desire not to keep Muhammad's daughters at his own expense. They told Utbah that if he broke the engagement off with Ruqayyah, they would give him any woman he liked;[6] and his father also told him that if he did no