Muhammad's wives

Mothers of the Believers
Mothers of the Believers
أمهات المؤمنين
Spouse
Khadija bint Khuwaylid	595–619
Sawdah bint Zam'ah	619–632
Aisha bint Abi Bakr	c. 623–632
Hafsa bint Umar	625–632
Zaynab bint Khuzayma	625–627
Hind bint Abi Umayya	625–632
Zaynab bint Jahsh	627–632
Juwayriya bint al-Harith	628–632
Ramla bint Abi Sufyan	628–632
Safiyya bint Huyayy	629–632
Maymunah bint al-Harith	630–632
Rayhana bint Zayd (concubine)	627–631
Maria al-Qibtiyya (concubine)	628–632
Family	House of Muhammad

Eleven women were confirmed to be married to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Muslims use the term Umm al-Mu'minin (Arabic: أم ٱلْمُؤْمِنِين; meaning 'Mother of the Believers' from Quran 33:6) before or after the names of Muhammad's wives as a sign of respect.

Family tree

Kilab ibn Murrah

Fatimah bint Sa'd

Zuhrah ibn Kilab
(progenitor of Banu Zuhrah)
maternal great-great-grandfather

Qusai ibn Kilab
paternal great-great-great-grandfather

Hubba bint Hulail
paternal great-great-great-grandmother

`Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah
maternal great-grandfather

`Abd Manaf ibn Qusai
paternal great-great-grandfather

Atikah bint Murrah
paternal great-great-grandmother

Wahb ibn `Abd Manaf
maternal grandfather

Hashim ibn 'Abd Manaf
(progenitor of Banu Hashim)
paternal great-grandfather

Salma bint `Amr
paternal great-grandmother

Fatimah bint `Amr
paternal grandmother

`Abdul-Muttalib
paternal grandfather

Halah bint Wuhayb
paternal step-grandmother

Aminah
mother

`Abdullah
father

Az-Zubayr
paternal uncle

Harith
paternal half-uncle

Hamza
paternal half-uncle

Thuwaybah
first nurse

Halimah
second nurse

Abu Talib
paternal uncle

`Abbas
paternal half-uncle

Abu Lahab
paternal half-uncle

6 other sons
and 6 daughters

Muhammad

Khadija
first wife

`Abd Allah ibn `Abbas
paternal cousin

Fatimah
daughter

Ali
paternal cousin and son-in-law
family tree, descendants

Qasim
son

`Abd-Allah
son

Zainab
daughter

Ruqayyah
daughter

Uthman
second cousin and son-in-law
family tree

Umm Kulthum
daughter

Zayd
adopted son

Ali ibn Zainab
grandson

Umamah bint Zainab
granddaughter

`Abd-Allah ibn Uthman
grandson

Rayhana
(marriage disputed)

Usama ibn Zayd
adoptive grandson

Muhsin ibn Ali
grandson

Hasan ibn Ali
grandson

Husayn ibn Ali
grandson
family tree

Umm Kulthum bint Ali
granddaughter

Zaynab bint Ali
granddaughter

Safiyya
tenth / eleventh wife*

Abu Bakr
father-in-law
family tree

Sawda
second / third wife*

Umar
father-in-law
family tree

Umm Salama
sixth wife

Juwayriya
eighth wife

Maymuna
eleventh / twelfth wife*

Aisha
second / third wife*
Family tree

Zaynab
fifth wife

Hafsa
fourth wife

Zaynab
seventh wife

Umm Habiba
ninth wife

Maria al-Qibtiyya

Ibrahim
son

* indicates that the marriage order is disputed
Note that direct lineage is marked in bold.

Notes

↑ Quran 33:6
↑ Aleem, Shamim (2007). Prophet Muhammad(s) and His Family: A Sociological Perspective. AuthorHouse. p. 85. ISBN 9781434323576.
↑ grandfather

Bibliography

Wives of Muhammad

Al-Shati, Bint (December 2006). The wives of the Prophet. Matti Moosa (trans.), D. Nicholas Ranson. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-398-0.

Women in Islam

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General

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Peterson, Daniel (2007). Muhammad, Prophet of God. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8028-0754-0.
Esposito, John (1998). Islam: The Straight Path. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511233-4.
Guillaume, Alfred (1955). The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-636033-1. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Wessels, Antonie (1972). A modern Arabic biography of Muḥammad: a critical study of Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal's Ḥayāt Muḥammad. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-03415-0.
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Nomani, Shibli (1970). Sirat Al-Nabi. Pakistan Historical Society.
Reeves, Minou (2003). Muhammad in Europe: A Thousand Years of Western Myth-Making. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-7564-6.
Rodinson, Maxime (1971). Muhammad. Allen Lane the Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-86064-827-4.
Watt, William Montgomery (1956). Muhammad at Medina. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-577286-5. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Watt, William Montgomery (1974). Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-881078-4.

[1] Quran 33:6

[2] Aleem, Shamim (2007). Prophet Muhammad(s) and His Family: A Sociological Perspective. AuthorHouse. p. 85. ISBN 9781434323576.

[3] randfather