How authentic is the story of the woman who saw a light on Abdullah's face before Amena conceived the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?
The story that a woman saw the light of prophethood on the face of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, the father of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and invited him to herself, but Allah prevented her from achieving that, is a famous story narrated in books of Sirah (Prophet's biography) and Dala'il al-Nubuwwah (Proofs of Prophethood). It has multiple chains of narration and طرق (ways), but most of its chains are weak and unreliable, providing no conclusive evidence. Some are mursal (missing the companion in the chain), and some of its narrators are accused of lying, تدليس (concealment of defects in narration), or narrating munkar (denounced) hadith. In summary, the hadith is weak through all its chains of narration.
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