The First Child to Be Born After the Migration to Medina

Hazrat Asmaa (ra), the wife of Hazrat Zubair bin al-Awwam (ra), relates, “When I set off and migrated from Mecca, I was expecting.” She further says, “I stayed in Quba, where Abdullah bin Zubair (ra) was born. I then brought him to the Holy Prophet (sa). He placed him in his lap and asked for a date to be brought and chewed it. The Holy Prophet (sa) first placed his saliva in the mouth of the child (the first thing that entered the stomach of the child was the blessed saliva of the Holy Prophet (sa)). He then chewed the date and placed it in his mouth and prayed for him to be blessed. This was the first child to be born in Islam [after the migration to Medina].”

(Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitan Manaqib al-Ansar, Hadith no. 3909)

We learn from the narration of Sahih Muslim that the Holy Prophet (sa) named Hazrat Asmaa’s (ra) son Abdullah. When he was seven or eight years of age, he came to take the oath of allegiance at the hands of the Holy Prophet (sa) and he was instructed to do so by his father, Hazrat Zubair (ra). The Holy Prophet (sa) smiled as he saw him approaching, and thereafter accepted the Bai‘at of Hazrat Abdullah (ra).

(Sahih Muslim, Kitab-ul-Adab, Hadith no. 2146)