Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib

He spent several months in Gaza, and on his return trip he stopped for a longer rest with the family of his paternal grandmother, Salma bint Amr, who belonged to the Najjar clan of the Khazraj tribe in Medina.

Al-Harith returned to Mecca to announce 'Abdullāh's death to his aged father and his pregnant wife Āminah.

[citation needed] 'Abdullāh left five camels, a herd of sheep and goats, and an Abyssinian slave nurse, called Umm Ayman, who was to take care of his son Muhammad.

[13] Islamic scholars have long been divided over the religious beliefs of Muhammad's parents and their fate in the afterlife.

[14] One transmission by Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah states that Allah (God) refused to forgive Āminah for her kufr (disbelief).

[15] Another transmission in Musnad al-Bazzar states that Muhammad's parents were brought back to life and accepted Islam, then returned to the Barzakh.

[16]: 11  Some Ash'ari and Shafi'i scholars argued that neither would be punished in the afterlife, as they were Ahl al-fatrah, or "People of the interval" between the prophetic messages of 'Isa (Jesus) and Muhammad.

[17] The concept of Ahl al-fatrah is not universally accepted among Islamic scholars, and there is debate concerning the extent of salvation available for active practitioners of Shirk (Polytheism),[18] though the majority of scholars have come to agree with it, and disregard [14] the hadith (narrations) [19][20] that state that Muhammad's parents were condemned to hell.

[16]: 24  Shia Muslims believe that all of Muhammad's ancestors, Āminah included, were monotheists who practiced the shariah of Abraham, and were therefore entitled to Paradise.