Zaynab bint Jahsh
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Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya Zaynab bint Jahsh Rayhana bint Amr ibn Khunafa** *succession disputed ** status as wife or concubine is disputed |
Zaynab bint Jahsh (Arabic: زينب بنت جحش born c. 593) was a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers.[1]
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Zaynab was Muhammad's cousin, being the daughter of one of his father's sisters.[2] At the time of the Hijra she was likely a widow, and probably emigrated with her brothers who were also Muslims. Upon arriving in Medina, it was suggested to her by Muhammad, to marry his adopted son Zayd ibn Harithah.
Zayd and Zaynab were both highly regarded and pious muslims[3], but proved incompatible and amicably divorced. She later married Muhammad.
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[edit] References
- ^ Rosalind Ward Gwynne (2004). Logic, Rhetoric, and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an: God's Arguments. Routledge, 45. ISBN 0415324769.
- ^ Montgomery Watt, Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman. Oxford University Press 1961, page 156.
- ^ Peopher Wife ZANYAB
