Umamah bint Zaynab
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Umāma bint Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ ( ar, أُمَامَة بِنْت أَبِي ٱلْعَاص ابْن ٱلرَّبِيْع}), was a granddaughter 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 mo ...
and
Khadija Khadija, Khadeeja or Khadijah ( ar, خديجة, Khadīja) is an Arabic feminine given name, the name of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In 1995, it was one of the three most popular Arabic feminine names in t ...
, via their daughter Zaynab, and is thus also known as ''Umāma bint Zaynab'' (). Muhammad was her maternal grandfather, and thus she is a member of his Ahl al-Bayt. She is also numbered among the Companions of the Prophet.


Biography

She was the daughter of
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi' Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ ( ar, أبو العاص بن الربيع, died in February, AD 634), was a son-in-law and Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His original name was said to have been Hushaym or Yasser. Family He was the s ...
, who married Muhammad's eldest daughter Zaynab. She had one sibling,
Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...
. Her maternal aunts were Muhammad's daughters
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 ...
,
Umm Kulthum Umm Kulthum ( ar, أم كلثوم, , also spelled ''Oum Kalthoum'' in English; born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi, ar, فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي, Fāṭima ʾIbrāhīm es-Sayyid el-Beltāǧī, link=no; 31 Dece ...
and Fatima. When Umama was a small child, Muhammad used to carry her on his shoulder while he prayed. He used to put her down to prostrate and then pick her up again as he rose. Muhammad once promised to give an onyx necklace to "her whom I love best." His wives expected him to give it to Aisha, but he presented it to Umama. On a different occasion, he gave her a gold ring that had arrived from the Emperor of Abyssinia. Her aunt Fatima requested her husband
Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...
on her deathbed to marry her niece Umama because Umama had an intense attachment and love for Fatima's children Hasan,
Umm Kulthum Umm Kulthum ( ar, أم كلثوم, , also spelled ''Oum Kalthoum'' in English; born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi, ar, فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي, Fāṭima ʾIbrāhīm es-Sayyid el-Beltāǧī, link=no; 31 Dece ...
, Zaynab and especially
Husayn Hussein, Hussain, Hossein, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein or Husain (; ar, حُسَيْن ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-i-N ( ar, ح س ی ن, link=no), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", " ...
. After Fatima died in 632, Umama married Ali. They had two sons, Hilal (also known as ''Muhammad al-Awsat or Muhammad the Middle'') and Awn, both of whom died in
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
, with the latter having been killed in a battle against Qays ibn Murra (the governor of Khorasan), and the former dying naturally. Ali was killed in 661, and Mu'awiya I proposed to Umama. She consulted al-Mughira ibn Nawfal ibn al-Harith about this. He said that she should not marry "the son of the liver-eater (
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 fou ...
)" and offered to deal with the problem for her. When she agreed, he said, "I will marry you myself." This marriage produced one son, Yahya. It is uncertain whether she had any descendants beyond this. Umama accompanied al-Mughira into exile at al-Safri. She died there , but it is also said that she died in 670 (50 AH).


Family tree


** indicates that the marriage order is disputed * Note that direct lineage is marked in bold.


See also

* Hejaz * Banu Hashim **
Muhammad's children The children of Muhammad include the three sons and four daughters of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The common view is that all were born to Muhammad's first wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid, except one son, named Ibrahim, who was born to Maria al-Q ...
*** Genealogy of Khadija's daughters


External links


The Tribe of Quraish


References

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