{"id":11858,"date":"2018-03-13T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:46:47","slug":"abdul-muttalib-draws-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=11858","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Abdul Muttalib Draws Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?attachment_id=11786\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11786\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11786\" src=\"http:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Muhammad-Sallallahu-Alaihi-Wasallam-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Muhammad-Sallallahu-Alaihi-Wasallam-1.jpg 258w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Muhammad-Sallallahu-Alaihi-Wasallam-1-190x127.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>\u2018Abdul Muttalib drew lots for all his sons and the name of \u2018Abdullah, his most beloved son, came up in the draw. He grasped \u2018Abdullah\u2019s hand and proceeded with a knife towards the sacrificial quarters. When \u2018Abdullah\u2019s sisters witnessed this distressing sight, they were moved to weeping in anguish. One of them pleaded with the father saying, \u201cO father! Draw another lot with ten camels against \u2018Abdullah\u2019s name. If the lot is drawn in favour of the ten camels, slaughter the camels, but we implore you to spare \u2018Abdullah.\u201d At that time, ten camels was the blood money paid to a murdered victim\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>When he drew lots a second time, \u2018Abdullah\u2019s name came up again. \u2018Abdul Muttalib added ten camels and drew lots again. Once more, \u2018Abdullah\u2019s name came up. \u2018Abdul Muttalib continued adding ten camels each time he drew lots but on every occasion, \u2018Abdullah\u2019s name came up. When he eventually reached a hundred camels, the camels\u2019 name was finally drawn. At that instant, \u2018Abdul Muttalib and the bystanders cried out , \u201cAllahu Akbar!\u201d \u2018Abdullah\u2019s sisters carried him away and \u2018Abdul Muttalib slaughtered his hundred camels between the mountans of Safa and Marwah.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Extracted from Seeratul Mustafa 1\/37)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Abdul Muttalib drew lots for all his sons and the name of \u2018Abdullah, his most beloved son, came up in the draw. He grasped \u2018Abdullah\u2019s hand and proceeded with a knife towards the sacrificial quarters. When \u2018Abdullah\u2019s sisters witnessed this distressing sight, they were moved to weeping in anguish. One of them pleaded with the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[796,663,62],"tags":[668,662,421],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-history","category-lineage-and-forefathers","category-seerah","tag-abdul-mutallib","tag-forefathers","tag-seerah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11859,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions\/11859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}