Person
Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf
هاشم بن عبد مناف
Abū Naḍla · Hāshim (originally ʿAmr al-ʿUlā — "Hāshim" means "the crusher", from his crushing bread for the pilgrims)
464 CE – 497 CE(aged ~33) Banū Hāshim
Great-grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ and eponymous founder of Banū Hāshim. He established the famous Quraysh trade caravans — riḥlat al-shitāʾ wa al-ṣayf ("the journey of winter and summer") — to Yemen in winter and to Sham (Syria) in summer, as praised in Sūrat Quraysh (106). He died in Gaza on a trade mission. His twin brother was ʿAbd Shams (ancestor of the Umayyads). Hāshim married Salmā bint ʿAmr of the Banū Najjār in Yathrib (Medina); their son was Shayba (= ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib), born in Yathrib.
Significance
Great-grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ and eponymous founder of Banū Hāshim. He established the famous Quraysh trade caravans — riḥlat al-shitāʾ wa al-ṣayf ("the journey of winter and summer") — to Yemen in winter and to Sham (Syria) in summer, as praised in Sūrat Quraysh (106). He died in Gaza on a trade mission. His twin brother was ʿAbd Shams (ancestor of the Umayyads). Hāshim married Salmā bint ʿAmr of the Banū Najjār in Yathrib (Medina); their son was Shayba (= ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib), born in Yathrib.
Reputation in tradition
Praised universally in Islamic tradition as the most generous of the Quraysh.
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