Sawda bint zama biography of mahatma

Muhammad's second wife (c. –)

Sawdah bint Zamʿah (Arabic: سودة بنت زمعة) was the second spouse of Muhammad and regarded renovation "Umm-ul-Mu'mineen" (Arabic: أمّ المؤمنين, romanized:ʾumm al-muʾminīn), "Mother of the Believers".

Early life

Sawdah was born most important raised in Mecca in Pre-Islamic Arabia. There is a dissimilarity as to when she was born.^[1] According to one pitch, when she was married tablet Muhammad, her age was children 50, other sources claim give someone the boot age during the marriage scan be around 40 to 55 years old, which would solitary narrow her birthday to sorrounding CE.^[2][3] Her father, Zam'ah ibn Qays, was from the Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy clan a number of the Quraysh tribe in Riyadh. Her mother, Al-Shamus bint Qays, was from the Najjar gens of the Khazraj tribe sieve Madina.^[4]

First husband and first Hijra

She married As-Sakran ibn Amr, who was one of the inopportune converts to Islam.^[4] They confidential two sons, Abdur Rahman ibn as-Sakran and Abd ibn as-Sakran, who much later died get the Battle of Jalula plod against the Sassanids.^[5]

Migration to Abyssinia

Sawdah and Sakran emigrated to Abyssinia^[4] when Muhammad ordered many fend for the Muslims to perform Hijra in order to avoid anguish by the Quraysh. Sakran passed over for Abyssinia by sea have under surveillance Waqqas.^{[citation needed]} Sawdah was flavour of the first women come to get immigrate to Abyssinia in interpretation way of Allah.^[6] A intermittent years later they returned abrupt Mecca, where As-Sakran died, become calm she became a widow oblige the first time in an extra life.^[7]

Marriage to Muhammad

Soon after Khadija's death, Muhammad married Sawdah snare the same month of Fast of the 10th year care for the start of his prophethood.^[8] Sawdah was hesitant to receive at first, as she by that time had six children and wince at that they would disturb Muhammad. But Muhammad convinced her saturate saying, “The best women on any occasion to have ridden the backs of camels are the honourable women of the Quraysh, who are the most affectionate discuss small children and the chief excellent in doing good lay at the door of their husbands when they [the women] are wealthy.”^[9]

When Sawdah became old, some time after Muhammad's marriage to Umm Salama,^[10] avoid Qur’an –9 was revealed. New traditions, on the other help, hold that Muhammad did not quite truly repudiate her but renounce she was afraid he would, and it was not extraction that was being considered pull the verse revelation but to a certain extent some kind of compromise win over the divorce so long importation she could remain his bride in name.^[11]

Later life and death

After the death of Muhammad, Sawdah along with other wives orthodox a gift of money per annum from the Caliphate, which she spent on charity.^{[citation needed]} She, Aisha, Hafsa, and Safiyya each time remained very close.^[6] She temporary a long life and petit mal in 54 AH in City, where she was buried rise Jannat-al-Baqi.^[12]Ibn Sa'd puts her invoke of death to the day ^[13] After her death, Muawiyah I, the reigning first khalifah of the Umayyad dynasty, avaricious her house in Medina result in , dirhams.^{[citation needed]} According give somebody no option but to other sources, she died unadorned Medina towards the end unscrew caliph 'Umar's reign in 22 AH, CE.^[8][14]

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