Rubāb bint Imraʾ al-Qays ( ar, رُبَاب بِنْت ٱمْرِئ ٱلْقَيْس), or Umm Rubāb ( ar, أُمّ رُبَاب) was a wife of
Husayn ibn Ali
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, أبو عبد الله الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi ...
.
She was a daughter of Imra al-Qais, a chief of Banu Kalb, who came to Medina when
Umar
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate o ...
was Caliph. Ali proposed this marriage, but since Husayn and Qais's daughter were too young at the time, the actual marriage took place later. Husayn had a daughter,
Ruqayya Ruqayya ( ar, رقيّة) is an Arabic female given name meaning "spell, enchantment, or incantation.”
It is not to be confused with a separate Arabic term "Ruqia" from Arabic رقى (ruqia) meaning “to rise” or “ascend.”
Ruqayya bint Mu ...
, and a son, Abd Allah, (or according to recent Shia sources,
Ali al-Asghar) from her. Husayn's , Abu Abd Allah, is probably refers to this son.
As a result of their deep affection, Husayn, composed poetry about her.
After Husayn's death she spent a year in grief at his grave and refused to remarry.
See also
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Imru' al-Qais
Imruʾ al-Qais Junduh bin Hujr al-Kindi ( ar, ٱمْرُؤ ٱلْقَيْس جُنْدُح ٱبْن حُجْر ٱلْكِنْدِيّ, ALA-LC: ''ʾImruʾ al-Qays Junduḥ ibn Ḥujr al-Kindīy'') was an Arab king and poet in the 6th century, an ...
ibn Hujr al-
Kindi Kindi may refer to:
*Al-Kindi (surname)
*Kindi Department, department of Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso
**Kindi, Kindi, its capital
*Kindi, Andemtenga, a town in Andemtenga Department, Burkina Faso
*Kindi (Tanzanian ward)
Kindi is a town and ward ...
References
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Family of Muhammad
Battle of Karbala
7th-century Arabs
Wives of Shiite Imams
Wives of Husayn ibn Ali
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