Sirin_bint_Shamun

Sirin bint Shamun

Sirin bint Shamun

Wife of Hasan ibn Thabit

Sīrīn bint Shamʿūn (Arabic: سيرين بنت شمعون) was an Egyptian Coptic Christian concubine, sent with her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya as gifts to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by the Egyptian official Muqawqis in 628.[1]

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According to the historian Ibn Saad, both sisters converted to Islam while on their way to Arabia with the encouragement of Hatib ibn Abi Balta'ah, who had been sent as a messenger to a governor of Egypt.[2]

Sirin was married to the poet Hassan ibn Thabit, and bore a son, Abdurahman ibn Hassan.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Ibn Ishaq
  2. [2]
    Hidayatullah, Aysha (2010). "Māriyya the Copt: gender, sex and heritage in the legacy of Muhammad's umm walad". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 21 (3): 221–243. doi:10.1080/09596410.2010.500475. ISSN 0959-6410. S2CID 145060435.
  3. [3]
    Tabari, p. 131.

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