Umm Hakim bint Abd al-Muttalib
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Umm Ḥakīm Al-Bayḍāʾ bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (Arabic: أم حكيم البيضاء بنت عبد المطلب) was an aunt of Muhammad and maternal grandmother of Uthman.
She was born in Mecca around 546, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib and Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiya.[1][2]: 32 She was the twin sister of Abdullah, the father of Muhammad.[3]: 198 Umm Hakim was known as Al-Bayḍāʾ ("the White One") because she was Abd al-Muttalib's only fair-skinned daughter.[3]: 198
She married Kurayz ibn Rabi'a from the Abd Shams clan of the Quraysh. Their children were Amir, Arwa (the mother of the future Caliph Uthman), Talha and Umm Talha.[2]: 32 [3]: 198
Umm Hakim died before 610.[3]: 198
References
[edit]- ^ Ibn Hisham note 97.
- ^ a b Muhammad ibn Saad, Tabaqat vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). The Women of Madina. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
- ^ a b c d Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk vol. 39. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors. New York: State University of New York Press.