Ibrahim ibn Muhammad

Ibrāhīm was the son of the Prophet ﷺ by Māriyah al-Qibṭiyyah, born in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the eighth year of the Hijrah. The Prophet ﷺ came to the masjid beaming and said that a boy had been born to him in the night and that he would name him after his forefather Ibrāhīm, and he declared of Māriyah: أَعْتَقَهَا وَلَدُهَا, her child has freed her, making her an umm al-walad.

He was his father's only living son at the end, all of the Prophet's ﷺ other children having died save Fāṭimah. A woman of the Anṣār was engaged as his wet nurse, and there was eager competition among the women of Madinah to foster him. He lived only about eighteen months, a year and four or six months by the reports, dying in the first quarter of the tenth year, less than a year before the Prophet ﷺ himself. As death came upon the infant, the Prophet's ﷺ tears fell, and he said: تَدْمَعُ الْعَيْنُ وَيَحْزَنُ الْقَلْبُ، وَلَا نَقُولُ إِلَّا مَا يَرْضَىٰ رَبُّنَا, the eye weeps and the heart grieves, but we say only what pleases our Lord. The funeral prayer was prayed over him with four takbīrāt, and he was buried in al-Baqīʿ.

On the day he died the sun was eclipsed, and people said it grieved for the Prophet's ﷺ sorrow; he gathered them and taught that the sun and moon are two of Allah's signs that eclipse for no one's birth or death. Because the verse مَّا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَا أَحَدٍ مِّن رِّجَالِكُمْ, Muḥammad is not the father of any of your men, had been revealed before his birth, some noted that Ibrāhīm was destined never to reach manhood; and it is reported from Anas that had he lived he would have been a ṣiddīq and a prophet, though the sounder view is that this was Anas's own ijtihād, not a ḥadīth.