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Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, paternal uncle of the Prophet, embraced Islam before the conquest of Mecca. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Abbasid dynasty which would rule the caliphate from 750.
Birthin 568 in Mecca
Deathin 653 in Medina