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Umayma bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ( ar, أميمة بنت عبد المطلب) was a paternal aunt of
Muhammad
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Biography
She was born in
Mecca
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, the daughter of
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim
Shayba ibn Hāshim ( ar, شَيْبَة بْن هَاشِم; 497–578), better known as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, ( ar, عَبْد ٱلْمُطَّلِب , lit=Servant of Al-Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf, Muttalib) was the fourth chief of the Quraysh tri ...
and
Fatima bint Amr
Fāṭima bint ʿAmr ( ar, فاطمة بنت عمرو; died 576) was the grandmother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Ali ibn Abi Talib and one of the wives of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim. She was from the Banu Makhzum clan of the Quraysh tri ...
al-Makhzumiya.
She married
Jahsh ibn Riyab
Jahsh ibn Riyab ( ar, جحش بن رئاب), was a companion of Muhammad.
Originally from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe, he settled in Mecca and formed an alliance with Harb ibn Umayya, chief of the leading clan of the Quraysh tribe. He married U ...
, an immigrant from the
Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe,
and they had six children.
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Abd Allah.
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Ubayd Allah Ubayd Allah ( ar, عبيد الله), also spelled or transliterated Obaidullah, Obaydullah, Obeidallah, or Ubaydullah, is a male Arabic given name that means "little servant of God".
Given name Obaidullah
* Obaidullah (detainee), an Afghan detaine ...
.
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Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.
[Ibn Hisham note 918.]
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Abd, who was always known as an adult by his ''kunya'', Abu Ahmad.
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Habiba, also known as Umm Habib.
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Hamna.
It is not recorded that Umayma ever became a
Muslim
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, and she did not accompany her children on their ''
Hijra
Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri may refer to:
Islam
* Hijrah (often written as ''Hejira'' in older texts), the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE
* Migration to Abyssinia or First Hegira, of Muhammad's followers ...
'' 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, ...
in 622. She was still alive in 628, when Muhammad assigned her an annual pension of 40 of dates from
Khaybar
KhaybarOther standardized Arabic transliterations: / . Anglicized pronunciation: , . ( ar, خَيْبَر, ) is an oasis situated some north of the city of Medina in the Medina Province of Saudi Arabia. Prior to the rise of Islam in the 7t ...
.
[Bewley/Saad p. 33.]
References
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Family of Muhammad
Banu Hashim
6th-century Arabs