'ABDU 'LLAH

The father of Muhammad. He was the youngest son of 'Abdul'l-Mattalib. During the pregnancy of his wife Aminah, he set out on a mercantile expedition to Gaza in the south of Palestine, and on his way back he sickened and died at al-Madinah, before the birth of his son Muhammad (Katibu'l-Wackidi, p. 18; Muir's Life of Mahomet, vol. i. p. 11.)