4وَامرَأَتُهُ حَمّالَةَ الحَطَبِMir Ahmed AliAnd1 his wife, the bearer of the firewood,Umm Jamilah, the sister of Abu-Sofyan was the wife of Abu-Lahab. She was also equally mischievous and grossly wicked. She was a squint-eyed woman of equally bad temperament like her husband. She used to collect thorny sticks the whole day, bundle them up with some rope made of fibre of the date palm, and in the night she used to spread the collected thorns in the path which the Holy Prophet usually used at night or very early before dawn to go to the Mosque for prayers so that the thorns may wound his feet or get stuck into his clothes. The Holt Prophet used to collect them aside. Hence she is called the bearer of the wood.