Sirin (Islamic history)

Sîrîn bint Sham'ûn was an Egyptian Coptic Christian who became one of Muhammad's slaves. She and her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya were sent to Muhammad as gifts from the Sassanid official Muqawqis in 628.^[1] Mohammed married Maria al-Qibtiyya and Sirin was married with the poet Hassan ibn Thabit. Hassan and Sirin had a son, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hassan.^[2]

See also

• List of non-Arab Sahaba
• Sunni view of the Sahaba

Notes

References

• Tabari (1997). Vol. 8 of the Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk. State University of New York Press.