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    Women Around the Messenger by Muhammad 'ali Qutb. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted without written permission from the Publisher. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials.

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    Title: Women Around the Messenger ‘Author: Muhammad ‘Ali Qutb English Faition 1 2007) ‘Translated from Arabic Edition 1 (1995) New Revised English Edition 2 (2008) ‘Translator: ‘Abdur-Rafi* Adewale Imam. Layout Design: IPH, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Filming and Cover Design: Samo Press Group Women Around The Messenger (CB) Soar Jos class Muhammad ‘Ali Qutb ‘Translated by ‘Abdur-Rafit Adewale Imam Copyright © 2008 International Islamic Publishing House, ‘King Fahd National Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data ‘Qutb, Muhammad Ali Women Around the Messenger / Muhammad Ali Qutb .= Riyadh, 2008 3 em ISBN Hard Cover: 978-403-501-022-1 1 Prophet's wives 2 Nunammacl’s household 1 Tite 239.9 6c 129/571 Legal Deposit no, 1429/5471 ISBN Hard Cove: 978-603-501-022-1 Albright reo No art ofthis bok may be peed transmit na form forby any mans, slectonc or machanical, including pltopying, reading ob lan inforaton storage and revicoal sem, stout win fermion from the Pilcher ‘The canning, pleading and dsaton of this bok via the Inter vo thers without hain persion ofthe Pubs eal ond punishable by lew, Pease purchase ont authorised electronic ions, and dona participate in or nce lector of eorighted materi. Your suport is apreciated International lame Publishing House (IPH) PO, Box 55105 Riyadh 11584, Saudi Arabia “el: 966 1 4650818 / 4647213 — Fax: 966 1 4689480 Email lph@iiph com. — tiphaatymailcom swiph coms Contents Arabic honorific symbols used in this book. u About the Word “LOM? rossi soe ‘Transliteration Chart Publisher's note to the second edition, 7 ‘Translator’s Foreword, i vend Introduction, sh 23 ‘The Mothers. : 29 Amina bint Wakb, - Sl Haeemah a8-$a°diyAh snore 36 Barakah (Umm Ayman) and Fatima bint Asadoo0oA2 FFitimah bint Asad. 44 ‘The Prophet's Wives (Mothers of the Faithful) SI Khadeejah bint Khuwaylid Sawdah and ‘Avishah.. Zaynab bint Khuzaymah.. Safiyah bint Huyay ibn AKhtab. aynab bint Jah al-Asadiyah, 6 Contents Zayd ibn Hiri, nl OF Zayd, son of Muhammad? vel ‘Umm Habeebah: Ramah bint Abi Sufyan, 120 ‘Umm Salamah, 127 ‘Abu Salamah. - 133, Miya, the Copt.n. ool Juwayriyah bint a-Hatith. 0 152 'A note about the Mothers ofthe Faith Women whose lives were connected with the life of the Messenger. ‘Umm Hin” and Nab‘ah, “The Lady of the Two Girdles’, Ast bint Abu Bakr 167 Safiyah bint “Abdu-Mutalib.c nose 172 Umm a- Fado ey) ‘Asma’ bint “Umays. (183 ‘Umm Marbad. 191 ‘Umm ‘Ammérah, Nosaybah bint Kab ‘al Miiniyah al-Ansitiyah... 196 Rufaydah al-Aslamiyah a 206 ‘Umm Waragah the Marty. eon ‘Umm Kulthoom bint "Ugbah oon 215 ‘Umm Sulaym bint Mithan, : 202 ‘Umm Harém bint Milk. Seen Fiimah bint al-Khatab... 238 Umm Mange", Asma? bint “Amt. 250 Al-Khansi’ — Tamddur bint ‘Amr ibn Shareed..0.00«-257 Shayma, the Prophet's foster sister. ‘The Prophet’s daughters. “The Prophet as a father. Women around the Messenger Zaynab the Great Zaynab’s growth. Marriage proposal. In the matrimonial home. Zaynal as a mother. ‘The separation. ‘The persevering believer Migration. Day of Criterion. “The opinion and the war. Aba al ‘The separation, 5 the captive Captive once again, How did he escape to Zaynab? ‘The final separation Ruggayah, the ‘Lady of Two Migrations" ‘The best two persons who met each other were Ruggayah and her husband, “Uthman... The frst migration At the palace... A coup ater, “Uihmin and Ruggayah’s return, Refutation of a falsehood, “Uthman and Ruggayah — from Abyssinia to Yatheb, ‘The departure, ‘The farewell ‘Umm Kulthoom, the ‘Confined ofthe Vale” ‘The third of the daughters. 273 214 215 276 an 27 218 219 280 283 283 288 285 286 289 290 298 295 298 301 302 304 305 306 307 309 8 Contents Mistress of the Prophet's household. ‘Mutual boycot, or the rupture of relations Endjof boycott and death of Khadeejah, Migration Marriage ‘The til. ‘They met with failure, ‘The Treaty of Hudaybiyah.. For every term is a Decree, Fitimah a2-Zabra Her birth... i Muhammad's wisdom... Her growth, Early responsibility A great calamity ‘The emigrant Arrival of the convoy. “Ali and Fatima, [Aight blessed by Allah and His Messenger. “All The Quran and the ett ‘A poor man, an orphan and a captive... Blessed offspring ‘The Prophet's household. ‘The Prophet's love for Fitimah, FFitimah: A part of me. ‘The greatest example for earlier and later generations ‘Three focal points. 347 2348 Women around the Messenger The most difficult separation. Her death Epilogue s Glossary of Islamic terms, 9 351 354 357 1359 Aminah bint Wahb The won ot Ain bin Wat vas crit the mbit and the most honourable of all wombs.’ It was in this womb thatthe noble foetus (of Allah's Messenger) settled. This seed had been passe from the loins of men, generation after generation, until Allah in His Divine wisdom decreed that it be passed to “Abdullah ibn “Abdul-Mualib, the youthful Qurayshi who excelled his contemporaries in greatness and beauty and in whose eyes the light of prophethood was shinning. It was ‘Abdullah, who was ransomed from slaughtering, after his father had vowed to sacrifice him and had sought to fulfil his vow. He was the most precious person the Arabs had ever known, This event took place so that the Divine choice might be ‘sctualised and firmly: rooted in the history of humankind, bearing witness to Allah's absolute Wil. There is no change in His Words, and there is no one who can prevent for what He has decreed Ossi g Cor nedom Ote ‘Alth chose Adam, Nooh [Noah], the family of oriheem {Alraham and the family of rin above humankind andjnn. They ihe M5 Lice, Jes Cos.pse Wo say this becuse was the womb that cated the seal fal the popes Ad the leader of the messengers. This doesnot, however, mean that we do ‘believe chat Maryam bint “Ima (esis mother was chosen over al ther omen of bee tine. 32 Aiminah bint Wahb were descendants one of another. All is the All-Hearer, All Knower (Quran 3: 33-39) “Abdullh went out with his father “Abdul-Muttli after he had been ransohed withthe sacrifice and he had increased in ight. A ‘woman from Bani Asad iba “Abdul “Uzza met him beside the Kaba aad told him, after she had looked into his fce that was illuminated With the light of prophethood, “You will be given the like of camels that were sacrificed for your ransom if you can cohabit with ‘But ‘Abdulla replied tha it was beter to die than oc ‘his unlawfil act, and that @ noble man preserves his honour and religion “Abdul-Mutsib finally chose Aminah bint Wahb, ofthe Zi clan, a8 a wife for his son ‘Abdullih, Aminah was then the Qurayshi woman in lineage and status. ‘A fortune-eller from ‘Tbalah, Fitimah bint Murr alk ‘Khath‘amiyah had also seen ‘Abdulla, Ths Woman was one of ‘most beautiful Arb women, and she was cast. She sath ight prophethood in the face of “Abdullah. She then offered herself ‘marriage to him, but he rejected the offer ‘The news ofa Prophet that would come fiom the hilren Ismieel (x) was spreading allover the Arabian peninsula. news was based on what the people ofthe Seripture nated and what was recorded in their Torah implicitly and explicitly, as well ‘on what fortune-tllers and astrologers were saying. ‘The circumstances that surounded ‘Abdullah ibn “Al Musab concerning his early life and yout, his excellent brilliant upbringing, his chastity, his high moral onduct an thei for which he was known, had made some women and girls wish Women around the Messenger 33 find favour with him, and they vied to become his wife. But as Allah would have it, it was Aminah who became the wife of ‘Abdulléh. Aminah’s womb was soon to bear the noble foetus of the Prophet; the womb carried out the duty that was meant fort. and

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