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 ...
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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 ...
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, 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 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), Moshi Rural district, Kilimanj ...
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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