Person
Hind bint ʿUtba
هند بنت عتبة
d. 636 CE Banū Umayya
Wife of Abū Sufyān, mother of Muʿāwiya, daughter of ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa (killed at Badr). Famously hired the Abyssinian slave Waḥshī ibn Ḥarb to assassinate Ḥamza at Uḥud in revenge for her father. Accepted Islam at the Conquest of Mecca; the Prophet ﷺ told her: "Whoever enters the house of Abū Sufyān is safe."
Significance
Wife of Abū Sufyān, mother of Muʿāwiya, daughter of ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa (killed at Badr). Famously hired the Abyssinian slave Waḥshī ibn Ḥarb to assassinate Ḥamza at Uḥud in revenge for her father. Accepted Islam at the Conquest of Mecca; the Prophet ﷺ told her: "Whoever enters the house of Abū Sufyān is safe."
Reputation in tradition
mixed
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