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16-492: Abd Allah ibn Umar ( kunya Abu Abd al-Rahman ) was born in 610 in Mecca , three years after the beginning of Muhammad's message. He was the son of Umar ibn al-Khattab and Zaynab bint Maz'un . His full siblings were Hafsa and Abd al-Rahman. His paternal brothers, born to his stepmother Umm Kulthum bint Jarwal , were Zayd and Ubayd Allah . He had another stepmother, Qurayba bint Abi Umayya , but she had no children of her own. It

32-589: A familiar but respectful setting. A kunya is expressed by the use of abū (father) or umm (mother) in a genitive construction , i.e. "father of" or "mother of" as an honorific in place of or alongside given names in the Arab world and the Islamic world more generally. Medieval Jewish names generally had stock kunyas referencing the biblical eponym and not any relative. Those named Abraham received "abu Ishaq", those named Jacob, "abu Yusuf," and so on. In some cases

48-402: Is a teknonym in an Arabic name , the name of an adult derived from their eldest son. A kunya is used as a component of an Arabic name, a type of epithet . Although in theory it refers to the bearer's first-born son or daughter, it may not do so literally, and by extension it may also have hypothetical or metaphorical references, as in a nom de guerre or a nickname. Use of a kunya implies

64-489: Is a good man. I wish he prayed the night prayers." After that, it was said that every night Abd Allah would pray much and sleep but a little. During his caliphate, Umar created a council and took his son Abd Allah as his advisor, but did not permit him to introduce himself as a caliphate candidate after his father. At the Arbitration of Siffin , some sources report that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari nominated Abd Allah Ibn Umar for

80-472: Is said of someone with a chubby face. When also using a person's own birth name, the kunya will precede the proper name. Thus: abū Māzin Maħmūd , for "Mahmud, the father of Mazen" (as, for example, for Mahmoud Abbas ). In Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic , but not in any of the spoken dialects, abū can change into the forms abā and abī ( accusative and genitive , respectively), depending on

96-537: Is to use real or fictional kunyas as noms de guerre . Examples of this include the ISIS leader Abu Bakr ( Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri ). Osama bin Laden 's kunya was "Abu Abdullah". Leaders of Palestinian fedayeen and Palestine Liberation Organization , such as Abu Jihad , Abu Nidal , Abu Ali Iyad are known by their kunyas. Teknonym Teknonymy (from Ancient Greek : τέκνον , "child" and ὄνομα , "name")

112-448: The English equivalent would be to call a man "Father of John" if his eldest son is named John. Use of the kunya normally signifies some closeness between the speaker and the person so addressed, but is more formal than use of the first name. The kunya is also frequently used with reference to politicians and other celebrities to indicate respect. A kunya may also be a nickname expressing

128-520: The attachment of an individual to a certain thing: as in Abu Bakr , "father of the camel foal", given because of this person's love for camels; or Abu Hurairah , “father of the cats”, given because of his caring for and adopting stray cats. A kunya may also be a nickname expressing a characteristic of an individual, as in Umm Kulthum “mother of the chubby face”, because the characteristic of being “ kulthum ”

144-768: The battle. Two years later, as the Battle of the Trench approached, Muhammad again called Abd Allah, and this time he decreed that he was old enough because he was mature and reached puberty. He was also present at the Battle of Al-Muraysi in 628. He was enlisted in the last army prepared by Muhammad for the expedition of Usama bin Zayd . After his father became Caliph in 634, Abd Allah Ibn Umar married Safiya bint Abu Ubayd , and they had six children: Abu Bakr, Abu Ubayda, Waqid, Umar, Hafsa and Sawda. Abd Allah Ibn Umar's sister Hafsa married Muhammad in 625. Muhammad once told her: "Abd Allah

160-825: The caliphate, but Amr ibn al-As objected. Ibn Umar participated in battles in Iraq , Persia and Egypt , but he remained neutral throughout the first Fitna. In 656, he prevented his sister Hafsa from following Aisha to the Battle of the Camel . While in Medina during the Second Fitna of the 680s, Abd Allah Ibn Umar, together with Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and Abd Allah ibn Abbas , advised Husayn ibn Ali to remain at Mecca . Husayn did not take this advice but chose to go to Kufa . Abd Allah ibn Umar died in Mecca in 693 (74 AH). Abd Allah ibn Umar

176-497: The kunya of a man with the given name Khalid who has no male heir would be Abu Walid, because of the famous Muslim military commander Khalid ibn al-Walid . The converse is also true: if someone's given name was Walid, his kunya would be Abu Khalid. Less commonly, however, it would be the name of his father. This is because it is tradition for men to name their firstborns after their fathers. A special practice evolved among Arab guerrillas, islamic terrorism and clandestine operators,

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192-526: The position of the kunya in the sentence. In westernizations of Arabic names the words abū and abū l- are sometimes perceived as an independent part of the full name, similar to a given name . Men who do not yet have a child are often addressed by a made-up kunya , most often from a popular or notable figure in Muslim or Arabian history. Arabs would take the given name and the patronymic of those famous figures and attribute it to that person. For example,

208-470: The time, I understood everything I saw." His mother Zaynab also became a Muslim, but his two stepmothers did not. His family emigrated to Medina in 622, although he may have emigrated to Medina before his father. Before the Battle of Uhud in March 625, Muhammad called Abd Allah Ibn Umar, who was then fourteen years old, to present himself. But when Abd Allah appeared, Muhammad would not allow him to fight in

224-535: The word abu is construed beyond the traditional sense of "father," so a person named Isaac received "abu Ibrahim" (son of Abraham) and one named Moses received "abu Imran" (son of Amram). Also common are kunyas which reflect qualities, such as " abu al-Afiya " (the Healthy) and "abu al-Barakat" (the Blessed). Abū or Umm precedes the son's or daughter's name, in a genitive construction ( ʼiḍāfa ). For example,

240-446: Was said that the young Abd Allah had vivid memories of his father's conversion to Islam . It is believed he accepted Islam together with his father, although some sources disagree about the year of his acceptance. He remembered following his father around the town as Umar declared his conversion to the neighbours and on the steps of the Kaaba . Abd Allah asserted, "Although I was very young at

256-541: Was the second most prolific narrator of Hadith , with a total of 2,630 narrations. It was said that he was extremely careful about what he narrated and that he narrated with his eyes full of tears. He was very cautious in life and thus was also cautious in his judgement. He defeated the mighty army of the pagan tribes of Mecca in various battles such as those of Badr (in 624 CE) and “the Trench” or al-Khandaq (in 627 CE) Kunya (Arabic) A kunya ( Arabic : كُنيَة )

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