For in the Resurrection They Neither Marry, Nor Are Given in Marriage, but Are As the Angels of God in Heaven
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Mohammad was originally a monogamist for 25 years. He married his wealthy, twice-divorced distant cousin, Khadijah in 595 AD. Khadijah was ± 28 and Muhammad was ± 26. Ibn Ishaq, cited in Al-Hakim, Mustadrak vol. 3 p. 182. Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya vol. 5 p. 293 He remained married to her for 24 years until her death in 619 AD. Guillaume/Ishaq 82-83, 106-107, 111, 113-114, 160-161, 191, 313-314. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 127-128; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 3-4 Bewley/Saad 8:9-12, 39, 151-152. After the death of Khadijah, Muhammad received a revelation to marry Aisha. In 619 AD, after he received a revelation Muhammad asked Abu Baker for Aisha’s hand in Marriage. Aisha was 6 Years old. Muhammad did not consume the marriage until her 9th year. Sahih Bukhari 2:26:740. Guillaume/Ishaq 148, 309, 530. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 128-130; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 169-170. Bewley/Saad 8:39-42, 152. In the meantime Muhammad married Sawa Year: 619 AD Name: Sawda bint Zam'a. Muhammad: 49 Wife: 40. She was obese and not very attractive. Sahih Bukhari 2:26:740. Guillaume/Ishaq 148, 309, 530. Aisha Year: 622 AD Name: Sayyidah Aisha Muhammad: 53 Wife: 9 She was Muhammad’s favorited wife and he spent most of his time at her. Once he married her, he disliked his first wife Sawa (after Kadijah), and Sawa gave up her night with Muhammad in favour of Aisha so she would not be divorced. All this was confirmed through divine revelations. It is said the reason why Muhammad wanted to divorce Sawa was that Sawa was old, however, she was 9 years younger than Muhammad! Al Bukhari 3:47:755 / 5:59:462 / 7:62:164 / 6:60:281 / 5:57:119 Guillaume/Ishaq 116, 223, 279-280, 311, 457, 464-465, 468, 493-499, 522, 535-536, 544, 649-650, 667, 678-688 Ibn Hisham note 918 Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 128-131; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 171-174. Bewley/Saad 8:43-56, 151 …Hafsa… Year: 625 AD Name: Hafsa bint Umar. Muhammad: 54 Wife: 19 Daughter of his wealthy friend Umar She eventually was the custodian of the autograph- text of the Qur'an. Guillaume/Ishaq 218, 301, 679 Ibn Hisham note 918 Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 131-132; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 174-175 Bewley/Saad 8:56-60, 152 …Zaynab… Year: 625 AD Name: Zaynab bint Khuzayma. Muhammad: 54 Wife: 28 She was a middle-class widow known as "Mother of the Poor" because of her commitment to charity work. She died later that same year she married. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 138; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 63-64. Bewley/Saad 8:82, 152. …Hind… Year: 626 AD Name: Hind (Umm Salama) bint Abi Umayya. Muhammad: 56 Wife: 28 An attractive widow with four young children, Hind had been rejected by her aristocratic family in Mecca because they were so hostile to Islam. Guillaume/Ishaq 146, 147, 150-153, 167-169, 213-214, 462, 529, 536, 546, 589, 680. Ibn Hisham note 918 Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 132; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 175-177. Bewley/Saad 8:61-67, 152. …Zaynab… Year: 627 AD Name: Zaynab bint Jahsh. Muhammad: 56 Wife: 37 Zaynab was the wife of Muhammad's adopted son Zayd ibn Harithah, and his biological cousin. Zayd was pressured into a divorce. Muhammad announced new revelations that an adopted son did not count as a real son, so Zaynab was not his daughter-in-law, as a prophet, he was allowed more than the standard four wives. Guillaume/Ishaq 215, 495. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 134; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 180-182. Bewley/Saad 8:72-81, 152. …Rayhana… Year: 627 AD Name: Rayhana bint Zayd ibn Amr Muhammad: 57 Wife: 20 Her first husband was one of the 600-900 Qurayza men whom Muhammad beheaded in April 627. He enslaved all the women and selected Rayhana for himself because she was the most beautiful. When she refused to marry him, he kept her as a concubine instead. She died shortly before Muhammad in 632. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 137, 141; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 164-165. Bewley/Saad 8:92-94, 153 …Al-Jariya… Year: 627 AD Name: Al Jariya Muhammad: 57 Wife: Teens She was a domestic slave belonging to Zaynab bint Jahsh, who made Muhammad a present of her. She seems to have been an "unofficial" concubine who did not have a regular turn on his roster. She was most probably a slave captured during the Genocide of the Qurayza tribe? Ibn al-Qayyim, Za’d al-Ma’ad 1:114. …Juwayriyah… Year: 628 AD Name: Juwayriyah bint Al-Harith Muhammad: 59 Wife: 17 The daughter of an Arab chief, she was taken prisoner when Muhammad attacked her tribe without reason and warning. Guillaume/Ishaq 490-493. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 133; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 182-184. Bewley/Saad 8:83-85, 152 …Ramlah… Year: 628 AD Name: Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan. Muhammad: 59 Wife: 34 She was a daughter of Abu Sufyan, the Meccan chief who led the resistance against Muhammad, but she had been a teenaged convert to Islam. Guillaume/Ishaq 146, 527-528, 529, 543. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 133-134; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 177-180. Bewley/Saad 8:68-71, 153. Safiyah bint Huyayy Year: 628 AD Name: Safiyah bint Huyayy. Muhammad: 59 Wife: 16 She was the beautiful daughter of a Jewish chief, Huyayy ibn Akhtab. Muhammad married her on the day he defeated the last Jewish tribe in Arabia, only hours after he had supervised the slaying of Kinana her second husband. Muhammad roasted Kinana alive to find out the location of the tribe’s treasury, then beheaded him. His earlier victims had included her father, brother, first husband, three uncles and several cousins. Guillaume/Ishaq 241-242, 511, 514-515, 516-517, 520. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 134-135; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 184-185. Bewley/Saad 8:85-92, 153. …Maymunah… Year: 629 AD Name: Maymunah bint Al-Harith Muhammad: 59 Wife: 35 She was a middle-class widow from Mecca who proposed marriage to Muhammad. Guillaume/Ishaq 531, 679-680. Ibn Hisham note 918. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 135; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 185-186. Bewley/Saad 8:94-99, 153. Mariyah Year: 629 AD Name: Mariyah bint Shamoon al-Quptiya. Muhammad: 60 Wife: Teens She was one of several slaves whom the Governor of Egypt sent as a present to Muhammad. He kept her as a concubine despite the objections of his official wives, who feared her beauty. Mariyah bore Muhammad a son, Ibrahim. Guillaume/Ishaq 653. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 137, 141; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 193-195. Bewley/Saad 8:148-151. Mulayka Year: 630 AD Name: Mulayka bint Kaab. Muhammad: 60 Wife: 13 Her family resisted the Muslim invasion of Mecca. Needing to appease the conqueror, they gave him the beautiful Mulayka as a bride. When she realised that Muhammad's army had killed her father, she demanded a divorce, which he granted her. She died a few weeks later. Bewley/Saad 8:106, 154. Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, p. 165 Fatima Year: 630 AD Name: Fatima al-Aliya bint Zabyan al-Dahhak Muhammad: 60 Wife: Teenager She was the daughter of a minor chief who had converted to Islam. Muhammad divorced her after only a few weeks "because she peeked at men in the mosque courtyard." Fatima had to work for the rest of her life as a dung-collector, and she outlived all Muhammad's widows. Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 138; Al-Tabari, Vol. 39, pp. 186-188. Despite the confusion over the name, she is probably also the woman referred to in Al-Tabari, Vol. 9, pp. 136-137 and the “Fatima bint Shurayh” of Al- Tabari, Vol. 9, p. 139 Bewley/Saad 8:100-101, 153. Tukana Year: 630 AD Name: Tukana al-Quraziya Muhammad: 62 Wife: Teenager She was a member of the defeated Qurayza tribe whom Muhammad selected as one of his personal slaves. She appears to have been another "unofficial" concubine without a regular turn on the roster. After Muhammad's death, she married Abbas. Majlisi, Hayat al-Qulub 2:52. Ibn al-Qayyim, Zaad al-Ma’ad 1:114 How many Wives can a Muslim man have? No more than 4 … And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then [marry only] one or those your right hand possesses. That is more suitable that you may not incline [to injustice]. (Qur'an, Sura 4 (An-Nisa), Ayah 3) But Muhammad could have… (Q 33:50) O Prophet, indeed We have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have given their due compensation and those your right hand possesses from what Allah has returned to you [of captives] and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who emigrated with you and a believing woman if she gives herself to the Prophet [and] if the Prophet wishes to marry her, [this is] only for you, excluding the [other] believers.