Zaynab bint Khuzayma

Zainab bint Chuzaima, Arabic زينب بنت خزيمة, DMG Zainab bt. Ḫuzaima ( about 597 *, † about 627 ), was the fifth wife of Muhammad. Her full name was Zainab bint Chuzaima b. al - Harith al - Hilaliyya.

Her first husband al - Tufayl b. al - Harith divorced her. Later she married the brother of the first husband Ubaida b. al - Harith. He died in the Battle of Badr. Mohammed married her two years later in Ramadan of the year 4 AH, ie 626 AD, your dowry was 400 dirhams. Mohammed was then 56 years old, she 30 Already in pre-Islamic times it was because of their generosity known as the " mother of the poor" ( umm al - Masakin ). Like the other women of Muhammad she is dubbed "the Mother of the Believers " ( umm al - Mu'minin ).

Zainab died only two or eight months after the wedding. She was the first of Muhammad's Medinan wives who died. Besides his first wife Khadija, she was the only one who did not survive Mohammed. She was buried in the cemetery of al - Baqi in Medina ʿ.

Source

EJ Brill 's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Volume VIII, sv Zainab bint Khuzaima

• Wife of Muhammad
• Arab
• Born in the 6th century
• Died in the 7th century
• Woman