It is narrated from Mus'ab bin Abdullah al-Zubayri that he said: Then a child was born to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from Mariyah bint Sham'un. She is the one whom al-Muqawqis, the ruler of Alexandria, sent as a gift to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Along with her he also sent her sister Sirin and a servant named Ma'bur. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave Sirin as a gift to Hassan bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him). Al-Muqawqis was from the Copts, and they were Christians. Ibrahim, the son of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), was born to Sayyidah Mariyah (may Allah be pleased with her) in Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 8 AH, and Ibrahim (peace be upon him) passed away in Madinah at the age of eighteen months.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Bara' bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), passed away, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, there is a wet nurse for him in Paradise."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that Sayyidah Mariyah (may Allah be pleased with her) was given as a gift to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and with her was a paternal cousin of hers. He (peace and blessings be upon him) had relations with her once and she became pregnant, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) placed her apart, with her cousin. At this the people of slander and falsehood said that, out of longing for a child, he had claimed someone else's child as his own. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) says: Mariyah had little milk, so a milk-giving ewe was bought for her, and the child (Ibrahim) was nourished on its milk and became very healthy. One day he was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "How do you find this child?" I said (out of jealousy): Whoever is raised on sheep's milk, his flesh is bound to become good. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you not see the resemblance?" Under the influence of jealousy I said that I saw no resemblance. Then what people were saying reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "Take this sword, and strike the neck of this cousin of Mariyah wherever you find him." Sayyiduna Ali reached there and found him in a garden, picking fruit from a date palm. When he saw Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) with a drawn sword, he trembled and his waist-cloth fell, and then it became known that he lacked male organs (he was majbub), and that Allah had not given him anything of what men have.