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 "id": "person/hafsa",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "hafsa",
 "label": {
  "en": "Hafsa bint Umar",
  "ar": "حفصة بنت عمر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A wife of the Prophet and daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab, remembered in Sunni tradition as the keeper of the collected Qur'anic codex.",
  "ar": "زوجة النبي وابنة عمر بن الخطاب، تُذكر في التقليد السني بحفظها المصحف الجامع."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
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 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 605.0000342238375,
  "latest": 666.0006023395099
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "0605~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Approximate; tradition places her birth before the mission began.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0665",
   "hijri": "0045",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally Sha'ban 45 AH (about October–November 665 CE).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
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  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "حفصة بنت عمر بن الخطاب"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0605~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Approximate; tradition places her birth before the mission began.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0665",
   "hijri": "0045",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally Sha'ban 45 AH (about October–November 665 CE).",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "companion",
   "scholar"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "family-of-the-prophet",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625~"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0632"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "transmitter",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0632~"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Kept the codex compiled under Abu Bakr until Uthman's recension; reports and hadith were taken from her.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "حفصة بنت عمر زوجة النبي وابنة الخليفة الثاني. ويذكرها التراث السني قبل كل شيء حافظةَ المصحف الجامع الذي صُنعت منه النسخة المعتمدة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وُلدت نحو سنة 605م، وتزوجت صغيرة، ثم توفي زوجها الأول متأثرًا بجراحه بعد [[event/battle-of-badr|بدر]]، فتزوجها النبي نحو سنة 625م {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وعاشت في بيت النبوة بالمدينة حتى وفاته سنة 632م.\n\nجاء دورها الباقي لاحقًا. فلما جُمع القرآن في عهد [[person/abu-bakr|أبي بكر]] بعد ما فُقد من القرّاء في حروب الردة، أُودعت الصحف في الرواية المتعارفة حفصةَ؛ ولما أمر [[person/uthman-ibn-affan|عثمان]] بعد ذلك بمصحف جامع كان مصحفها أصله {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وتوفيت بالمدينة سنة 665م."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "بين الحفظ والكتاب، تقول الرواية إن النص مرّ ببيتها. وبهذا صارت حفصة شخصية هادئة مركزية في تاريخ القرآن كتابًا مكتوبًا."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "قبل المطابع لم تكن الكتب إلا صفحات قليلة مكتوبة باليد. حفظت حفصة صفحات القرآن في بيتها، والنسخ التي بين أيدينا اليوم ترجع إلى ما حفظت."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/hafsa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Hafsa bint Umar was a wife of the Prophet and a daughter of the second caliph. Sunni tradition remembers her above all as the keeper of the collected Qur'anic codex — the copy from which the standard text was made."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Born about 605 CE, she married young, lost her husband to wounds after [[event/battle-of-badr]], and married the Prophet about 625 {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. She lived in the Prophet's household in Medina until his death in 632.\n\nHer lasting role came later. When the Qur'an was gathered under [[person/abu-bakr]] after the deaths of many reciters, the sheets were entrusted — in the traditional account — to Hafsa's keeping; when [[person/uthman-ibn-affan]] later ordered a standard recension, her copy was its base {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. She died in Medina in 665 CE."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Between memory and manuscript, the tradition says the text passed through her house. That makes Hafsa a quiet but central figure in the history of the Qur'an as a written book."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Before printing, books existed as a few handwritten pages. Hafsa kept the pages of the Qur'an safe in her home — and the copies we have today go back to hers."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/hafsa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
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  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/umm-salama",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/safwan-ibn-umayya",
  "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "person/safiyya-bint-huyayy",
  "person/sajah",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/aisha"
 ],
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   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "died_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab",
   "type": "child_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "spouse_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0625~"
   },
   "end": {
    "edtf": "0632"
   },
   "note": "Widowed after Badr; married the Prophet about 4 AH.",
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   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "group/ahl-al-bayt",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "As a wife of the Prophet; membership is itself contested and shown under perspectives on the group page."
  },
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   "to": "event/hijra",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "emigrant"
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  "person/muhammad",
  "person/umm-salama",
  "event/hijra",
  "person/umar-ibn-al-khattab",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-masud",
  "person/fatima",
  "event/pledges-of-aqaba"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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