Umm Kulthūm bint Muḥammad | |
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أم كلثوم بنت محمد | |
Born | 603 CE
Mecca, Arabia |
Died | November, 630 (aged 27)
Medina, Arabia |
Resting place | |
Spouse | Uthman |
Parents |
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Relatives |
Qasim (full-brother) Ruqayya (full-sister) Zainab (full-sister) Abd Allah (full-brother) Fatimah (full-sister) Ibrahim (half-brother) Ali (brother-in-law & fathers cousin) Abu al-As (brother-in-law & maternal-cousin) |
Family | House of Muhammad |
Umm Kulthūm bint Muḥammad ( Arabic: أم كلثوم بنت محمد) ( c. 603–630) was the third daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by his first wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid.
She was born in Mecca, probably the fifth of their six children. [1]: 10 She was legally married before August 610 to Utaybah ibn Abi Lahab, but the marriage was never consummated. [1]: 26 [2]: 163 She was still living with her parents when Muhammad was declared a prophet by God, and Umm Kulthum became a Muslim soon after her mother did. [1]: 26
After Muhammad warned Abu Lahab of hellfire in 613, Abu Lahab told Utaybah that he would never speak to him again unless he divorced Umm Kulthum, so he did. [1]: 26 Her maternal brother, Hind ibn Abi Hala, asked Muhammad, "Why did you separate Umm Kulthum from Utaybah?" Muhammad replied, "Allah did not allow me to marry her to a person who is not going to Paradise." [3]
Muhammad left Mecca in September 622. Before long Zayd ibn Haritha brought instructions to Umm Kulthum and her sister Fatima to join their father in Medina. [2]: 171–172 Their uncle Al-Abbas put them on a camel; but as they were setting off, Huwayrith ibn Nuqaydh goaded the animal so that it threw them to the ground. [4]: 773 However, Umm Kulthum and Fatima arrived safely in Medina. [1]: 26 [2]: 163 Muhammad remembered the assault and, when he conquered Mecca in 630, he sentenced Huwayrith to death. [5]: 551
After the death of her sister Ruqayya left Uthman a widower, he married Umm Kulthum. The marriage was legally contracted in August/September 624, [6]: 128 [2]: 163 but they did not live together until December. The marriage was childless. [1]: 26 [2]: 163
Umm Kulthum died in November/December 630. [1]: 26 [2]: 11, 163 Her father tearfully conducted her funeral prayers; then Ali, Usama ibn Zayd and Abu Talha laid her into the grave . [1]: 27 [2]: 11–12, 163 Muhammad said, "If I had ten daughters, I would marry them all to Uthman." [1]: 26 Uthman was known as Dhu al-Nurayn ("the possessor of the two lights") because it was believed that no other man had ever been married to two daughters of a prophet. [7]: 369