Zainab bint Chuzaima

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Zainab bint Chuzaima , Arabic زينب بنت خزيمة, DMG Zainab bt. Ḫuzaima (* about 597 , † about 627 ), was the fifth wife of Muhammad . Her full name was Zainab bint Chuzaima b. al-Hārith al-Hilālīyya.

Her first husband al-Tufail b. al-Harith divorced her. Later she married the brother of her first husband Ubaida b. al-Harith. This fell in the battle of Badr . Mohammed married her two years later in Ramadan of the year 4 AH , i.e. 626 AD. Her morning gift was 400 dirhams . Mohammed was then 56 years old, she was 30. Already in pre-Islamic times she was nicknamed “mother of the poor” ( umm al-masākīn ) because of her generosity . Like the other women of Muhammad, she is nicknamed "mother of believers" ( umm al-mu'minīn ).

Zainab died just two or eight months after the wedding. She was the first of Muhammad's Medinan wives to die. Besides his first wife, Khadijah , she was the only one who did not survive Mohammed. She was buried in the al-Baqiʿ cemetery in Medina.

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EJ Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936, Vol. VIII, sv Zainab bint Khuzaima