Talk:Umm Habiba

Aisha and the goat

Jesus, i was really shocked to discover that the one that send Aisha the goat was THE umm habeeba... *chills*...

I guess the Qur'an was right in chapter 66, when it warned the wifes...

--Striver 04:23, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Question

What does the bolded mean?

His wife: Umm Habibah-Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan ibn Harb ibn Sakhr ibn Umayyah ibn ‘Abdu Shams ibn Abd Manaaf.

Her mother is Safiyah bint Abi Al ‘As ibn Umayyah ibn ‘Abdu Shams. She is the aunt of ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan ibn Abi Al ‘As. So ‘Uthman and Umm Habibah were 1st cousins on mothers side and 2nd cousins by her fathers side.

Umm Habibah married the prophet sallaallaahu alayhi wa sallaam in 7A.H aged 30 years. She died 44 A.H in the caliphate of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan.

She has a daughter to him named Habibah bint Umm Habibah bint Abi Sufyan (this is how she is named in Isaabah). Her father is ‘Ubaydullaah ibn Jahsh. She married Dawud ibn ‘Urwah ibn Mas’uud ath-Thaqafi

She is the sister of Muawiyah. His mother is Hind bint ‘Utbah ibn Rabee’ah. He is the one who killed ‘Ubaydah ibn al Haarith before he was then killed by Hamzah ibn ‘Abdul Muttalib. She also married the prophet sallaallaahu alayhi wa sallaam after the death of her husband ‘Ubaydullaah. [1]

Who is "He"? --Striver 06:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Muhammad's Motive for the Marriage

To Honor Her & Elevate Her Spirits After The Calamity of Husband's Treachery to Her By Apostating & Leaving Her Stranded without husband in a faraway foreign land & Supportless As She Could Not Go Back to Makkah to Her Father As He was a polytheist & Leader of the enmity to the Muslims

"There are contradictory sources. One claim that when Muhammad came to know about what had happened to her, he got worried that she might turn back from her faith like her husband."

This is a wrong supposition, she was free to go with her husband but she did not go & suffered for a year it shows the firmness of her belief & very doubtfulness of this report, probably fabricated as it does not fit the facts & logically should be discounted. The Prophet was never worried about her 'faith', he being the head of the Muslim community was worried about her 'welfare', being the most merciful person on Earth ever lived, so he offered to marry her to elevate her from that sorrow & calamity which had befallen her. The strength of the belief is from God & not from the Prophet, so if her faith was weak it would not have been strengthened it marrying the Prophet, as he was a human being only. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.149.94.65 (talk) 18:56, August 27, 2007 (UTC)

Actually the early sources do not state Muhammad's motive for marrying Umm Habiba. They simply state that he did marry her. A NPOV article should not claim to know his motive. At most, there could be a paragraph on "theories about his motive", each clearly attributed to the secondary source that speculated this motive. One theory is that he was worried about her faith (it could be wrong, but if you can find a reputable secondary source that states this, it can still be promoted as a theory that someone historically held); another is that he was worried about her material welfare; a third is that there was some kind of political advantage in an alliance between Muhammad and the daughter of Abu Sufyan; a fourth is that Umm Habiba was "one of the most beautiful women among the Arabs" and no further motive was needed. Wikipedia does not need to draw any conclusions about which of these is the correct theory.

Note also the very biased and inappropriate language: "the calamity of her husband's treachery" and "leaving her stranded in a faraway land". This needs to be attributed to the historian who expressed it like this or else removed. Petra MacDonald (talk) 23:13, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Ramla bint Abi Sufyan → Umm Habiba – I may be wrong, but per WP:COMMONNAME it seems that the page needs to be moved to Umm Habiba as that's the common name of this person which is used among the Muslims. Arabic, Persian and Turkish Wikipedia also use this name as the article's main title. On the other hand, per WP:CONSISTENCY, Umm Habiba would be the more suitable title, as another wife of Muhammad, Hind bint Abi Umayya, also has her article titled with her common name Umm Salama. This Google NGram also shows no hits for Ramla bint Abi Sufyan while Umm Habiba has been used quite a few times in some books. Keivan.f^Talk 01:07, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

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