A few months preceding the occurrence of the Aṣḥābul-Fīl, ‘Abdul-Muṭṭalib married off his son ‘Abdullāh with Āminah bint Wahb, who was an exceedingly noble girl of a respected family in the tribe of the Banū Zuhrah of the Quraish. At that time ‘Abdullāh was 25 years of age, or in light of certain narrations, 17 years of age.1 At this occasion, ‘Abdul-Muṭṭalib himself also married a cousin of Āminah named Hāllah bint Wahb. Ḥamzah was born of this very Hāllah.
1 * Tārīkhul-Khamīs, By Ḥusain bin Muḥammad bin Ḥasan Dayār Bakrī, Zauju ‘Abdullāhi Āminata, Volume 1, p. 184, Muwassasatu Sha‘bān, Beirut,
* Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Muḥammad bin ‘Abdul-Bāqī Az-Zarqānī, Volume 1, pp. 192-193, Bābu Dhikri Tazawwuji ‘Abdullāhi Āminata, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996)