Arwā bint Kurayz ( ar, أَرْوَى بِنْت كُرَيْز) was the mother of

Uthman ibn Affan Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic prop ...

, a companion of the

Islamic prophet Prophets in Islam ( ar, الأنبياء في الإسلام, translit=al-ʾAnbiyāʾ fī al-ʾIslām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God in Islam, God's message on Earth and to serve as models of ideal human behaviour. So ...

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

, and the third of the ''

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'' or "Rightly Guided

Caliph A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...

s".

Ancestry

Arwa was the daughter of Kurayz ibn Rabi'ah ibn Habib

Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ( ar, عبد شمس بن عبد مناف) was a prominent member of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca in modern-day Saudi Arabia. The Banu Abd Shams sub-clan of the Quraish tribe and their descendants take its name from him. ...

, so she was of

Banu Abd-Shams Banu Abd Shams () refers to a clan within the Meccan tribe of Quraysh. Ancestry The clan names itself after Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf, the son of Abd Manaf ibn Qusai and brother of Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf, who was the great-grandfather of the Islam ...

, a sub-clan of the tribe of

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 ...

. Arwa's mother was

Umm Hakim bint Abd al-Muttalib Umm Ḥakīm Al-Bayḍāʾ bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib () was an aunt of Muhammad. She was born in Mecca around 546, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib and Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiya.Ibn Hisham note 97.Muhammad ibn Saad, ''Tabaqat'' vol. 8. Trans ...

, so Arwa was a

cousin Most generally, in the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of familial relationship in which two relatives are two or more familial generations away from their most recent common ancestor. Commonly, " ...

of Muhammad.

Children

Arwa married

Affan ibn Abi al-'As ʿAffān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ () was a famous 6th-century Arab merchant, a contemporary of the young Muhammad (–632) and the father of Uthman ibn Affan, the third Rashidun caliph (). His father was Abu al-As ibn Umayya. His nephew was Marwan ib ...

and bore him

Uthman Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic proph ...

and Amina. After the death of Affan, Arwa married

Uqba ibn Abu Mu'ayt Family Family lineage ‘Uqbah was the son of Abu Mu‘ayṭ ibn Abu ‘Amr ibn Umayyah ibn ‘Abd Shams and of Shayma bint Abd-al-Uzza from the Banu Amir. Abu Mu'ayt's mother was Kabsha bint Abd al-Manat from Banu Amir. Uqbah's aunt, Safiyya ...

, to whom she bore al-Walid, 'Ammara, Khalid,

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 ...

, Umm Hakim and Hind.

Biography

Arwa bint Kurayz converted to

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

and emigrated to

Medina Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...

after her daughter,

Umm Kulthum bint Uqba Umm Kulthūm bint ʿUqba ( ar, أُمُّ كُلثُوم بِنْتِ عُقبَة) () was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. A verse of the Qur'an, 60:10, was revealed in response to her situation.Muhammad ibn Saad. ''Kitab al-Tabaqat ...

. She gave allegiance to Muhammad, and remained in Madina, until she died during the caliphate of her son,

References

Sahabah ancestors 6th-century Arabs Banu Abd Shams {{islam-bio-stub

Ancestry

Children

Biography

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