Umm Kult̲h̲ūm

, daughter of the Prophet Muḥammad and his first wife Ḵh̲adīd̲j̲a [q.v.]. Little is known of her and much of this is similar to traditions about her sister Ruḳayya [q.v.]. Umm Kult̲h̲ūm is said to have married a son of Abū Lahab [q.v.] but to have been divorced by him by his father’s orders before the marriage was consummated. Her ¶ brother-in-law ʿUt̲h̲mān (later the third caliph) married her after Ruḳayya’s death during the Badr campaign. She died in S̲h̲aʿbān of the year 9 without having borne a son with him.

Classical Muslim scholars connected Umm Kult̲h̲ūm to traditio…