Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hashim ibn Abd Manaf

great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0464

Place of Birth: Mecca, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0497

Profession: merchant

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hashim ibn Abd Manaf (Arabic: ?????? ???? ????? ???????, romanized: Hashim ibn ?Abd Manaf; c.?464–497), born Amr al-'Ula (Arabic: ??????? ?????????), was the great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the progenitor of the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraish tribe in Mecca. At some point in his life before his father's death, 'Amr chose for himself the name Hashim, as it was the name God used for Abraham ('Amr was a Hanif, following the "religion of Abraham").
The narrations coming out from Islamic hagiographists to explain the name Hashim are different.
Another narration suggests that `Amr was called Hashim because Hashim translates as pulverizer in Arabic - because as a generous man, he initiated the practice of providing crumbled bread in broth that was later adapted for the pilgrims to the Ka'aba in Mecca.
One other narration for the story of this naming is that Hashim comes from the Arabic root Hashm, to save the starving, because he arranged for the feeding of the people of Mecca during a seasonal famine, and he thus became "the man who fed the starving" (Arabic: ??? ???????).