Shaiba ibn Hashim (497-578), also known as Abdul-Muttalib, was the father of Abu Talib ibn Shaiba, the grandfather of Ali ibn Abu Talib, and the grand-uncle of Muhammad.
Biography[]
Shaiba ibn Hashim was born in 497 to a Bedouin pagan family, the Hashimids. He was the son of Hashim ibn Abd. Shaiba went by the name "Abul-Muttalib" after his uncle Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf. During the Year of the Elephant (570 AD), when the Axumite general Abraha al-Ashram invaded Mecca, he told the people of Mecca to leave for the hills while he and the elders guarded the Ka'abah. He said that Allah would not dishonor the servants of his house, and when the Axumite forces neared the Ka'abah, it is said that Allah sent flocks of birds to drop stones of baked clay on them, "rendering them like straw eaten up". Abraha was wounded and died on the way back to Yemen.
Abdul-Muttalib's son Abu Talib ibn Shaiba would go on to father Ali ibn Abu Talib, a future Caliph, and Abdul-Muttalib was also the granduncle of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. His other son Abbas ibn Shaiba was also an uncle of Muhammad, and his family line would extend to be the rulers of the Abbasid Caliphate.