Person
Ruqayya bint Muhammad ﷺ
رقية بنت محمد ﷺ
601 CE – 624 CE(aged ~23) Banū Hāshim
Second daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. Originally betrothed to ʿUtba ibn Abī Lahab, but he divorced her (without consummation) at his father Abū Lahab's instigation when Sūrat al-Masad (Q 111) was revealed. Then married ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; they migrated together to Abyssinia and then to Medina. Died of plague in Medina on the day of Badr (the Prophet ﷺ stayed back from the battle to be with her and assigned ʿUthmān to nurse her).
Significance
Second daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. Originally betrothed to ʿUtba ibn Abī Lahab, but he divorced her (without consummation) at his father Abū Lahab's instigation when Sūrat al-Masad (Q 111) was revealed. Then married ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; they migrated together to Abyssinia and then to Medina. Died of plague in Medina on the day of Badr (the Prophet ﷺ stayed back from the battle to be with her and assigned ʿUthmān to nurse her).
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