Qurayba "the Younger" bint Abi Umayya, a companion of the Islamic prophet

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monot ...

, was in succession a wife of Umar, the second

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and of

Mu'awiya Mu'awiya I ( ar, معاوية بن أبي سفيان, Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the deat ...

Biography

Family

She was from the Makhzum clan of the

Quraysh The Quraysh ( ar, قُرَيْشٌ) were a grouping of Arab clans that historically inhabited and controlled the city of Mecca and its Kaaba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Hashim clan of the tribe. Despite this, many of the Qur ...

tribe in

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. Her father, Abu Umayya ibn al-Mughira,Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir'' vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). ''The Women of Madina''. London: Ta-Ha Publications. was the chief of Mecca in the early seventh century.Guillaume, A. (1960). ''New Light on the Life of Muhammad'', p. 24. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Her mother was Atika bint Utba, a member of the Abdshams clan of the Quraysh. Hence

Hind bint Utba Hind bint ʿUtba ( ar, هند بنت عتبة), was an Arab woman who lived in the late 6th and early 7th centuries CE; she was the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, a powerful man of Mecca, in western Arabia. She was the mother of Mu'awiya I, the foun ...

was her maternal aunt while

Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya ( ar, هِنْد بِنْت أَبِي أُمَيَّة, Hind ʾibnat ʾAbī ʾUmayya, 580 or 596 – 680 or 683), better known as Umm Salama ( ar, أُمّ سَلَمَة, link=no) or Hind al-Makhzūmiyah ( ar, هِنْد ...

was her paternal sister.Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk''. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). ''Volume 39: Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors'', pp. 80, 175. Albany: State University of New York Press.

First marriage

She married Umar before 616.Muhammad ibn Ishaq. ''Sirat Rasul Allah''. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). ''The Life of Muhammad''. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk''. Translated by Fishbein, M. (1997). ''Volume 8: The Victory of Islam''. Albany: State University of New York Press. Umar was concurrently married to

Zaynab bint Maz'un Zaynab bint Maẓʿūn (Arabic: زينب بنت مظعون) was the first wife of Umar. Biography She was the daughter of Maz'un ibn Habib of the Jumah clan of the Quraysh in Mecca;Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir'' vol. 3. Trans ...

and to

Umm Kulthum bint Jarwal Umm Kulthūm bint Jarwal (Arabic: أم كلثوم بنت جرول), also known as Mulayka (Arabic: مليكة), was a wife of Umar and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Biography She was born in Mecca as a member of the Khuza'a t ...

, who had between them five children, while Qurayba was childless.Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir'' vol. 3. ''The Companions of Badr''. London: Ta-Ha Publishers. Umar converted to

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in 616. The whole family

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in 622, although Umm Kulthum and Qurayba were still polytheists.Bukhari 3:50:891.
/ref> Quarayba is briefly mentioned in Medina in an incident when she helped to care for her sister Umm Salama's baby. Soon after the Treaty of Hudaybiya in 628, Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) announced a revelation that Muslims were ordered to "hold not to the cords of disbelieving women." Accordingly, Umar divorced Umm Kulthum and Qurayba, and they both returned to Mecca.

Second Marriage

Qurayba then married her cousin,

Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan Mu'awiya I ( ar, معاوية بن أبي سفيان, Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death. He became caliph less than thirty years after the deat ...

, "while they were both still polytheists", i.e., before January 630. However, Mu'awiya I also divorced her. But Qurayba had 3 daughters with Mu'awiya I, they are Umm Hakim, Umm Sa'id and Umm Habib

Third marriage

Later she was courted by

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Aisha Aisha ( ar, , translit=ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr; , also , ; ) was Muhammad's third and youngest wife. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title "Mother of the Believers" ( ar, links=no, , ʾumm al- muʾminīn), referr ...

negotiated for her brother, and the Makhzum family agreed to the match.Malik ibn Anas. ''Al-Muwatta'' 29:14.
/ref> Abd al-Rahman and Qurayba had three children: Abd Allah, Umm Hakim, Asma, Muhammad and Hafsa. Abd al-Rahman had a reputation for being "harsh" with women, and the Makhzum family protested his treatment of Qurayba. They claimed that they had only given consent because of

, who now conveyed their concerns to her brother. One day Qurayba exclaimed, "I was warned about you!" and Abd al-Rahman replied, "I will divorce you if you like." She then changed her mind and said, "I will not prefer anyone over

Abu Bakr Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 ...

's son." They remained together.

References

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