Ruqayyah bint Muhammad
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Ruqayyah is viewed as the daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid by some Sunnis and some Shia but some Shia and non-Muslim argue she is the daughter of Khadijah's assumed previous husband (see Genealogy of Khadijas daughters). She died in 2 AH (624 CE).
[edit] Life
She was first married to Utbah ibn Abu Lahab and then to Uthman ibn Affan. Her son was Abd-Allah ibn Uthman, who died when he was 2 years old.
She participated in the Migration to Abyssinia.
[edit] Contradictory beliefs
There are contradictory beliefs about her.
- Sunnis believe she is Muhammad's daughter, while Shias believe she is Muhammad's stepdaughter, since Khadija was either younger or could not have all five children with Muhammad Shia Ref.
- She was born three years after the birth of Zainab when Muhammad was 33.(ref)
- It was only through Fatimah that the progeny of the Prophet was perpetuated. All of Muhammad's male children died in their infancy and the two children of Zaynab, named Ali and Umamah, died young. Ruqayyah's child Abdullah died prior to his second birthday. This is also a reason for the reverence of Fatimah.
- In the eighth year after the Hijra, Fatimah gave birth to a third child, a girl she named after her eldest sister Zaynab, who had died shortly before her birth. Fatima's daughter Zaynab was to grow up and become famous as the "Heroine of Karbala." Fatima had a fourth child, a girl, named Umm Kulthum after her sister who had died the year before after an illness. (ref)
- This was the time, before the Bithah, when her eldest sister Zaynab was married to her cousin, Abu al-Aas ibn al-Rabiah. Then followed the marriage of her two other sisters, Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum, to the sons of Abu Lahab, a paternal uncle of the Prophet. Both Abu Lahab and his wife Umm Jamil turned out to be enemies of the Prophet from the very beginning of his public mission. (ref)
