Abu Lahab — Abd al-Uzza ibn Abd al-Muttalib — was the Prophet ﷺ's uncle who publicly turned against him, he and his wife Umm Jamil. The sira records him following the Prophet through Mecca's markets telling people not to believe him, and Surat al-Masad names his household. He died shortly after Badr.
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Abu Lahab
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Abu Lahab — Abd al-Uzza ibn Abd al-Muttalib — son of Abd al-Muttalib and brother of Abu Talib, the Prophet ﷺ's uncle who publicly turned against him, he and his wife Umm Jamil; the tradition preserves their hostility until Surat al-Masad named their house — the only sura in the Book aimed at an opponent. The sira records him following Muhammad through Mecca's markets telling people not to believe him, and in the boycott of Banu Hashim he sided against his own clan. He died of illness shortly after Badr, and the tradition reads the sura's fulfillment in him. His story is the starkest example of one house divided: a nephew proclaiming and an uncle renouncing, inside Banu Hashim itself.
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