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bt. Abī Umayya b. Mug̲h̲īra , one of Muḥammad’s wives. She was of the Mak̲h̲zūm clan of the noble tribe of Ḳuraysh [ q.v.], most of whom were bitter enemies of the Prophet. She accompanied her first husband, Abū Salama ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Asad, on both emigrations of Muslims to Abyssinia. She was one of the first, if not the first, Muslim woman to join her husband in Medina, after her kin forcibly separated her from him and his family took her child away. In all, she had three sons and a daughter by Abū Salama. After the death of her husband from wounds received at the battle of Uḥud [ q.v.], she marrie…

, 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 traditions about mul…

bt. Ḥuyayy b. Ak̲h̲ṭab . Muḥammad’s eleventh wife, was born in Medina and belonged to the Jewish tribe of the Banu ’l-Naḍīr [see al-naḍīr ]; her mother Barra bt. Samawʾal, the sister of Rifaʿa b. Samawʾal, was of the Banū Ḳurayẓa [ q.v.]. Her father and her uncle Abū Yāsir were among the Prophet’s most bitter enemies. When their tribe was expelled from Medina in 4 A.H., Ḥuyayy b. Ak̲h̲ṭab was one of those who settled in K̲h̲aybar [ q.v.], together with Kināna b. al-Rabīʿ, to whom Ṣafiyya was married at the end of 6 or early in 7 A.H.; her age at this time was about 17. The…

b. Ḳayyis b. ʿAbd S̲h̲ams , Muḥammad’s second wife, was one of the early converts to Islam. She was of the noble tribe of Ḳurays̲h̲ [ q.v.] on her father’s side, and her mother al-S̲h̲amūs bt. Ḳayyis b. ʿAmr of the Banū ʿAdī, was from the Medinan Anṣār [ q.v.], supporters of the Prophet. She accompanied her first husband al-Sakrān b. ʿAmr to Abyssiniya, along with her brother and his wife, with the second party of Muslims who emigrated there. The couple returned to Mecca before the hid̲j̲ra [ q.v.], and al-Sakrān, who had become a Christian in Abyssinia, died there. Sawda’s marriage to Muḥammad…