Hind bint Awf
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Hind bint Awf was Muhammad's mother-in-law[1] and Ibn Abbas' grandmother. As the mother of several companions of Muhammad, she was known as the "grandest mother-in-law on earth".
Hind was also known by the name Khawla.[2]
Her father, Awf ibn Zuhayr ibn al-Haarith ibn Humaatah ibn Juraysh/Jarsh, was from the Himyar tribe in Yemen. Her mother was Aisha bint Al-Muhazzam.[3]
Hind apparently married four times and had at least nine children.
Her first husband was Al-Jaz'i al-Zubaydi. Al-Tabari mentions one child from this union.
- 1. Mahmiyah ibn Al-Jaz'i al-Zubaydi.[4] He was an early convert to Islam who spent thirteen years in Abyssinia. On his arrival in Medina in 628, Muhammad appointed him community treasurer.
She also married Al-Harith ibn Hazan ibn Jubayr ibn Al-Hazm ibn Rubiya ibn Abdullah ibn Hilal. The Hilal were residents of Mecca; although they were wealthy, they did not have the political power of the Quraysh. By this husband, Hind was the mother of at least four children.
- 2. Lubaba "the Elder" (Umm Fadl), wife of ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, and mother of seven of his children, including Ibn Abbas.[5]
- 3. Barra bint al-Harith, renamed Maymuna when she married her third husband, Muhammad.[6]
- 4. Al-Saayib ibn al-Harith.
- 5. Qatn ibn al-Harith.
By her husband Khuzayma ibn Al-Harith al-Hilali, Hind had one daughter:
- 6. Zaynab bint Khuzayma, who was also a wife of Muhammad. It is mentioned that "three of her brothers" were present at her funeral;[7] since Mahmiyah was then in Abyssinia, these brothers must have been Al-Saayib, Qatn and Awn.
Hind's fourth husband was Umays ibn Ma'ad ibn Tamim ibn Al-Harith ibn Kaab ibn Malik Al-Khathmi. This marriage produced three children:
- 7. Asma bint Umays, who was married in rotation to Rabia ibn Riyab al-Hilali, Jafar ibn Abi Talib, Caliph Abu Bakr and Caliph Ali, and had at least eight children of her own.[8][9]
- 8. Salma bint Umays, who married Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib and then Shaddad ibn Usama ibn Al-Haad al-Laythi.[10][11] It is also said that she married Kaab ibn Inaba al-Khathaami.
- 9. Awn ibn Umays, who died at Al-Harrah.[12]
Al-Harith ibn Hazan also had at least three daughters by another wife, Fakhita bint Amir ibn Muattib ibn Malik al-Thaqafi.[13] Hind's stepchildren from this marriage were:
- 10. Lubaba "the Younger", also known as Layla or Asma, who married Walid ibn al-Mughira Al-Makhzumi and was the mother of the famous warrior Khalid Ibn Walid.[14][15]
- 11. Huzayla bint al-Harith.[16][17]
- 12. Ghorra bint Al-Harith, also known as Izza, who was married to Abdullah ibn Malik al-Hilali.[18][19]
References
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- ↑ 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, p. 201. New York: State University of New York Press.
- ↑ Muhammad ibn Saad. Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). The Women of Madina, p. 193. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, pp. 185, 201.
- ↑ Bewley/Saad p. 82.
- ↑ Bewley/Saad, pp. 196-199.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Bewley/Saad p. 199.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Bewley/Saad p. 195.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Bewley/Saad p. 196.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
- ↑ Bewley/Saad p. 196.
- ↑ Landau-Tasseron/Tabari, p. 201.
