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Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib

Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib

Paternal aunt of Muhammad

Umaymah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (Arabic: أميمة بنت عبد المطلب) was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Biography

She was born in Mecca, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiya.[1]

She married Jahsh ibn Riyab, an immigrant from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe,[2][3] and they had six children.

  1. Abd Allah.[4][5][6][7]
  2. Ubayd Allah.[8][9][10]
  3. Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
  4. Abd, who was always known as an adult by his kunya, Abu Ahmad.[17][12][18][19]
  5. Habiba, also known as Umm Habib.[20][21]
  6. Hamna.[22][23][24]

It is not recorded that Umayma ever became a Muslim, and she did not accompany her children on their Hijra to Medina in 622 CE.[25] She was still alive in 628, when Muhammad assigned her an annual pension of 40 wasqs of dates from Khaybar.[26]

References

  1. [1]
    ibn Saad, Muhammad (1995). Tabaqat vol. 8: The Women of Madina. Ta-Ha Publishers. p. 33.
  2. [2]
    Muhammad ibn Ishaq (1955). Sirat Rasul Allah(The Life of Muhammad). Oxford University Press. p. 116.
  3. [3]
    Bewley/Saad, p. 33.
  4. [4]
    Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 146, 168, 215-217, 230, 286-289, 388, 401.
  5. [5]
    Bewley/Saad, p. 173.
  6. [6]
    Watt/McDonald/Tabari, p. 139.
  7. [7]
    Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 7. Translated by McDonald, M. V. (1987). The Foundation of the Community, pp. 18-23, 29, 134, 137. New York: State University of New York Press.
  8. [8]
    Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 99, 146, 529.
  9. [9]
    Bewley/Saad, p. 68.
  10. [10]
    Poonawala/Tabari, p. 133.
  11. [11]
    Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 495.
  12. [12]
    Ibn Hisham note 918.
  13. [13]
    Bewley/Saad, pp. 72-81.
  14. [14]
    Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 8. Translated by Fishbein, M. (1997). The Victory of Islam, pp. 1-4, 61. New York: State University of New York Press.
  15. [15]
    Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 9. Translated by Poonawala, I. K. (1990). The Last Years of the Prophet, pp. 23, 127, 134, 137, 168. New York: State University of New York Press.
  16. [16]
    Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 39. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors, pp. 9, 180-182. New York: State University of New York Press.
  17. [17]
    Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 215-217, 230.
  18. [18]
    Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 80-81.
  19. [19]
    Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 6. Translated by Watt, W. M., & McDonald, M. V. (1988). Muhammad at Mecca, p. 139.
  20. [20]
    Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 523.
  21. [21]
    Bewley/Saad, pp. 170-171.
  22. [22]
    Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 389, 495, 499, 522.
  23. [23]
    Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 170.
  24. [24]
    Fishbein/Tabari, pp. 61, 63.
  25. [25]
    Guillaume/Ishaq p. 215.
  26. [26]
    Bewley/Saad p. 33.
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