Raihana

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Raihana bint Zaid ibn Amr ,ريحانة بنت زيد بن عمرو / Raiḥāna bint Zaid b. ʿAmr , († 631 (in the year 10, according to the Islamic calendar )) was a slave and - according to some sources - later a wife of Muhammad .

Muhammad's victory over the Banu Quraiza

Raihana belonged to the Banū n-Nadīr tribe and was married to al-Hakam from the Jewish tribe of Banu Quraiza until 627 . That year, the Banu Quraish and their allies attacked Medina and were repulsed by Mohammed in the battle of the trenches . The Banu Quraiza did not take part in the fighting, but - according to the prophetic biographer Ibn Ishāq - broke the contract because they wanted to take in the "enemy of God" Huyayy ibn Akhtab , from the Jewish tribe of Banu Nadir.

Mohammed attacked the Banu Quraiza after the trench warfare "at the behest of the Archangel Gabriel " and was able to persuade them to surrender after a 25-day siege. When the attackers from Medina took control of the Banu Quraiza, they killed all the men, including Raihana's husband and father. The children and women, including Raihana, were taken as booty and enslaved.

The capture

Ibn Ishaq reports (p. 181): “One of the captured women, Raihana bint Amr, was kept for himself by the Prophet (note: he sold the other women from his share of the booty). She remained in his possession until she died. When he proposed to her to marry her and asked her to wear the veil , she asked him that he would rather keep her in his possession as a slave, as it would be easier for both of them. When she was arrested, she showed her aversion to Islam and clung to Judaism ”.

In Islamic historiography, the question of whether Mohammed Raihana married and whether she accepted Islam is answered controversially. Ibn Sa'd compiled these reports in his "class book" based on his teacher al-Waqidi . According to these traditions, Raihana either remained an unreleased concubine of Muhammad or he released her and married her until her death. According to another report, Mohammed allegedly rejected them.

swell

  1. ↑ Ibn Saad: Vol. VIII: Biographies of Women . Edited by Carl Brockelmann. Brill, Leiden 1904. pp. 92-93
  2. ^ W. Montgomery Watt: Muhammad at Medina . Oxford 1972. p. 393; 397

literature

  • Ibn Ishaq, Gernot Rotter (translator): The life of the prophet. As-Sira An-Nabawiya . Spohr, Kandern in the Black Forest 1999, ISBN 3-927606-22-7
personal data
SURNAME Raihana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raihana bint Zaid ibn Amr; Rayhana; Rayhanah; Raihanah bint Zaid An-Nadriyah; Quraiza, Raihana ibn Amr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slave of Muhammad
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 631