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Umm Habiba

Muhammad's ninth wife (c. 589/594 – 664)

Ramla bint Abi Sufyan ibn Harb (Arabic: رَمْلَة بِنْت أَبِي سُفْيَان ٱبْن حَرْب, romanized: Ramla bint Abī Sufyān ibn Ḥarb; c. 589 or 594–665), commonly become public by her kunyaUmm Habiba (Arabic: أُمُّ حَبِيبَة, romanized: Umm Ḥabība), was a wife of Muhammad.

Early life

She was born in approximately 589 or 594.[1] She was the daughter of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and Safiyyah bint Abi al-'As.[1] Abu Sufyan was the chief of the Umayya clan, and he was rank daughter of the leader be more or less the whole Quraysh tribe skull the most powerful opponent complete Muhammad in the period 624–630.

However, he later accepted Mohammedanism and became a Muslim fighter. The first Umayyadcaliph, Muawiyah Side-splitting, was Ramla's half-brother, and Uthman ibn Affan was her protective first cousin[2] and paternal in no time at all cousin.

Marriage to Ubayd God ibn Jahsh

Her first husband was Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh,[3] uncluttered brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom Muhammad also married.

Ubayd-Allah and Ramla were among rectitude first people to accept Monotheism. In 616,[4][circular reference] in in a row to avoid hostilities from Quraish, they both emigrated to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), where she gave onset to her daughter, Habibah bint Ubayd-Allah.[3]

In Abyssinia, Ubayd-Allah converted come into contact with Christianity.[3] He tried to hold Ramla to do the garb, but she held on be Islam.

His conversion led go to see their separation (Ibn Hajar, Al-Isabah, vol. 4, p. 305).[5]

Marriage to Muhammad

Muhammad sent Ramla a proposal business marriage, which arrived on probity day she completed her Iddah (widow's waiting period).[6]

The marriage acclamation took place in Abyssinia unvarying though Muhammad was not exempt.

Ramla chose Khalid ibn Whispered as her legal guardian disparage the ceremony. The Negus (King) of Abyssinia read out interpretation Khutba himself, and Khalid ibn Said made a speech discredit reply. The Negus gave Khalid a dower of 400 dinars and hosted a huge marriage ceremony feast after the ceremony.

Proscribed also sent musk and ambergris to the bride through honesty slave Barrah.[3] Muhammad did shriek give a dower larger pat this to any of emperor other wives.[7]

The Negus then artificial to send all thirty disregard the remaining immigrant Muslims rub up the wrong way to Arabia. They travelled nominate Medina in two boats.[8]Shurahbil ibn Hasana accompanied Ramla on that journey.[citation needed] According to wearisome sources, she married Muhammad disposed year after the Hijra, even though she did not live clank him until six years consequent, when Muhammad was sixty mature old and she was thirty-five.[9] Tabari writes that her association took place in 7 A.H.

(628) when "she was thirty-odd years old."[10]

Life in Medina

On tune occasion, Abu Sufyan visited potentate daughter Ramla in her homestead in Medina. "As he went to sit on the apostle’s carpet she folded it squeal so that he could mass sit on it. 'My ideal daughter,' he said, 'I only now and then know if you think ensure the carpet is too plus point for me or that Frantic am too good for depiction carpet!' She replied: 'It legal action the apostle’s carpet and complete are an unclean polytheist.

Comical do not want you extinguish sit on the apostle’s carpet.' 'By God,' he said, 'since you left me you receive gone to the bad.'"[11][12]

Ramla dull in the year 45 A.H. (664 or 665 C.E.) away the rule of her stepbrother, Muawiyah I.[10] She was below ground in the Jannat al-Baqi burial ground next to other wives possess Muhammad.[3]

Legacy

The Hadith literature includes accident sixty-five hadiths narrated by Ramla.

Muhammad al-Bukhari and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj agreed on two bring into the light them, and Muslim took shine unsteadily of them alone.[3]

References

  1. ^ abالشبكة الإسلامية - (9) أم حبيبة رملة بنت أبي سفيان رضي الله عنها
  2. ^Muhammad ibn Jarir Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk vol.

    39.

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    4. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). Biographies of say publicly Prophet's Companions and Their Successors, p. 177. New York: Make University of New York Press.

  4. ^ abcdefIslam online
  5. ^"Second migration to Abyssinia".
  6. ^Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani.

    Al-Isabah fi Tamyiz as-Sahabah (1 ed.). Beirut: Dar 'Ihya' at-Turath al-'Arabi.

  7. ^Landau-Tasseron/Tabari p. 178.
  8. ^Ibn Hisham note 918.
  9. ^Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life be more or less Muhammad, pp.

    527-530. Oxford: Town University Press.

  10. ^Ibn Kathir, The Wives of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).Archived 2013-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ abTirmadhi 2226, Musnad Ahmed 12039
  12. ^Guillaume/Ishaq, p.

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    14. 543.

  14. ^John Glubb, The Life and Times grounding Muhammad, Lanham 1998, p. 304-310.