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 "id": "person/hind-bint-utba",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "hind-bint-utba",
 "label": {
  "en": "Hind bint Utba",
  "ar": "هند بنت عتبة"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Daughter of the Meccan elder Utba ibn Rabi'a and wife of Abu Sufyan: the sira's most vivid figure of Meccan defiance at Uhud, who converted with the conquest of Mecca; mother of the caliph Mu'awiya.",
  "ar": "ابنة شيخ مكة عتبة بن ربيعة وزوجة أبي سفيان: أوضح صور السيرة في التحدي المكي بأحد، وأسلمت يوم الفتح؛ أم الخليفة معاوية."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles",
  "women"
 ],
 "span": {
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  "latest": 641.0007734586977
 },
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   "edtf": "0575~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0640~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; reported in the caliphate of Umar.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "هند بنت عتبة بن ربيعة"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0575~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0640~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Date uncertain; reported in the caliphate of Umar.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "opponent",
    "toward": "group/early-muslims",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0625"
    },
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "Present at Uhud urging on the Meccan fighters; the sira attributes to her the mutilation of Hamza's body, told in varying detail.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "convert",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Converted at the conquest of Mecca; the tradition preserves her pointed exchanges with the Prophet at the women's pledge.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "documented",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   },
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0630"
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "labelled": [
   {
    "label": {
     "en": "'Akilat al-akbad' (eater of the liver) — a name given her for the Uhud mutilation",
     "ar": "آكلة الأكباد"
    },
    "by": "later Muslim tradition",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Counted among the women who pledged allegiance and became companions; the tradition records her sharp exchanges with the Prophet at the pledge and her later life in piety."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Historians note that the Uhud mutilation scene is told in the sira with varying detail and polemical coloring, and treat her as a case study in how the sources shape portraits of enemy women."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/watt-1956-medina"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume",
   "source/watt-1956-medina",
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "هند بنت عتبة — ابنة شيخ مكة [[person/utba-ibn-rabia|عتبة]] وزوجة [[person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb|أبي سفيان]] — أوضح صور السيرة في التحدي المكي. أسلمت يوم الفتح وصارت أم أول خلفاء بني أمية."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "في [[event/battle-of-uhud|أحد]] تظهرها المصادر في مقدم الصف المكي تحرض المقاتلين بالشعر. وبعد المعركة تنسب إليها السيرة المثلة بجثة [[person/hamza|حمزة]] — وتروى في المصادر بقدر متفاوت من التفصيل {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوفي [[event/conquest-of-mecca|يوم الفتح]] أسلمت. ويحفظ التراث بيعة النساء مبادلة حقيقية: هند تردّ على شروط النبي ردودًا حادة قبل أن تبايع {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nوابنها [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاوية]] حكم أول إمبراطورية إسلامية."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "سمّاها التراث المتأخر «آكلة الأكباد» ليوم أحد — ويعرض المعرض الفعل كما ترويه المصادر، والإسلام الذي ترويه أيضًا. وهي من أدلّ نماذج السيرة على شخص يقطع قوس الحرب كلها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "حاربت هند المسلمين بشدة ثم صالحتهم — وصار ابنها حاكم العالم الإسلامي كله."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/hind-bint-utba",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Hind bint Utba — daughter of the Meccan elder [[person/utba-ibn-rabia|Utba]] and wife of [[person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb|Abu Sufyan]] — is the sira's most vivid figure of Meccan defiance. She converted at the conquest and became the mother of the first Umayyad caliph."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "At [[event/battle-of-uhud|Uhud]] the sources show her at the front of the Meccan line, urging the fighters on with song. After the battle the sira attributes to her the mutilation of [[person/hamza|Hamza]]'s body — told in the sources with varying detail {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nAt the [[event/conquest-of-mecca|conquest of Mecca]] she converted. The tradition preserves the women's pledge as a genuine exchange: Hind answering the Prophet's conditions with pointed retorts before giving her word {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}.\n\nHer son [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|Mu'awiya]] would rule the first Islamic empire."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Later tradition named her \"eater of the liver\" for Uhud — the museum records the act as the sources tell it, and the conversion they equally record. She is one of the clearest cases in the sira of a person crossing the war's whole arc."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Hind fought fiercely against the Muslims, then made peace with them — and her son became the ruler of the whole Islamic world."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/hind-bint-utba",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 12,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/heraclius",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/uthman-ibn-affan",
  "person/suhayl-ibn-amr",
  "person/bilal-ibn-rabah",
  "person/malik-ibn-awf"
 ],
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  {
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   "type": "spouse_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/utba-ibn-rabia",
   "type": "child_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-abd-shams",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-uhud",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "inciting-the-meccan-line",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/conquest-of-mecca",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "convert",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
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  "group/quraysh",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/muhammad",
  "place/mecca",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "event/fath-mecca-sermon"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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