The notion of the term may have been vague in the Meccan religion.[42] Allah was associated with companions, whom pre-Islamic Arabs considered as subordinate deities. Meccans held that a kind of kinship existed between Allah and the jinn.[43] Allah was thought to have had sons[44] and that the local deities of al-ʿUzzā, Manāt and al-Lāt were his daughters.[45] The Meccans possibly associated angels with Allah.[46][47] Allah was invoked in times of distress.[47][48] Muhammad's father's name was ʿAbd-Allāh meaning "the slave of Allāh".[47]