Ibrahim ibn Muhammad

Who was Ibrahim ibn Muhammad?

Ibrahim ibn Muhammad was the male child of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Maria al-Qibtiyya. He was born in the last month of the year 8 AH. His mother was an Egyptian Coptic Christian slave sent as a gift from Muqawqis, a Byzantine official, to Muhammad in 628. Many sources, including Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, claim that she was only a concubine, not a wife. The child was named after Abraham, the common ancestor of Muslims, Jews, and Christians. The child was placed in the care of a wet nurse called Umm Sayf, wife of Abu Sayf, the blacksmith, in the tradition of the Arabs of the time, to whom Muhammad gave some goats to complement her milk supply.