THE DEATH OF HAZRAT ABDULLAH علیہ السلام

The Death of Hazrat Abdullah علیہ السلام 

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Hadhrat Abdullah had not been present in Makkah at the Event of the Elephant. Some versions say that he had been sent by his father to buy dates in Madinah. Another account states that Abdullah went to Syria with a trade caravan. Hadhrat Aminah remained very sad and melancholic at the absence of her husband. She was living in her uncle’s house with Barakah (Umme Ayman), Abdullah’s maid.
Two months after the departure of Abdullah, Aminah called Barakah at dawn one morning and, her face beaming with joy, she said to her: "O Barakah! I have seen a strange dream." 
"Something good, my lady," Barakah said. 
"I saw lights coming from my abdomen lighting up the mountains, the hills and the valleys around Makkah.” Aminah said. 
"You shall give birth to a blessed child who will bring goodness," Barakah said.
Hadhrat Aminah did not even leave Makkah when Abrahah’s army was expected to attack. When Abdul Mutthalib came to tell her to leave for the mountains along with the others, she refused to go. She insisted that Abrahah could never enter Makkah and destroy the Ka’bah because it was protected by Allah, and she was too grief-stricken by the absence of her husband to go away from home.
Meanwhile, Hadhrat Abdullah had fallen ill on the way back. He stayed in Madinah, therefore, to recuperate at the house of his grandmother’s relative, An-Nabigha Al-Ju‘di. When Hadhrat Abdul Mutthalib got news of the poor health of his youngest, he sent his older son Harith to go and accompany him back to Makkah as soon as he was well enough to make the journey. But when Harith arrived at the house of his cousins in Madinah, he received the distressing news of his brother’s death. There was great grief in Makkah at the news of his demise. He had been the most beloved son of Abdul Mutthalib, the zabih who had been rescued by Divine Hand, the most handsome and chaste man of Makkah, the dear husband of his young and beautiful wife. Hadhrat Aminah was beside herself with grief. She said a heart-touching elegy in her husband's memory, for she loved him dearly and never remarried after his death as was the common custom in Arabia.
Hadhrat Barakah describes how the news reached Hadhrat Aminah. She was at Abdul-Muttalib's house when news came from Madinah that Abdullah had died. She said: "I screamed when I heard the news. I don't know what I did after that except that I ran to Aminah's house shouting, lamenting for the absent one who would never return, lamenting for the beloved one for whom we waited so long, lamenting for the most beautiful youth of Makkah, for Abdullah, the pride of the Quraysh. 
"When Aminah heard the painful news, she fainted and I stayed by her bedside while she was in a state between life and death. There was no one else but me in Aminah's house. I nursed her and looked after her during the day and through the long nights until she gave birth to her child, "Muhammad", on a night in which the heavens were resplendent with the light of Allah."