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برة بنت عبد العزى القرشية

برة بنت عبد العزى القرشية

Amina's mother — the Prophet ﷺ's maternal grandmother: Barra bint Abd al-Uzza ibn Abd al-Dar ibn Qusayy, a Qurayshite 1.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia
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Family, marriage and kinshipWomen

Place in the story

  • Family of the Prophet

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

أم آمنة بنت وهب أم النبي، فهي جدة النبي لأمه. وهي برة بنت عبد العزى بن عثمان بن عبد الدار بن قصي، قرشية. 2

People and things also explored

Jāhilī Marriage Forms· The social condition of the Arabs before Islam· Waʾd (Infant Burial)· The marriage of Fatima and Ali· The Prophet's marriage to Khadija· The Prophet's marriage to Sawda bint Zam'a· Marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh· The Choice Offered to the Prophet's Wives

Sources

  1. Ansab al-Ashraf of al-Baladhuri, p. 533
  2. Ansab al-Ashraf of al-Baladhuri, p.533
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islam.museum contributors. “برة بنت عبد العزى القرشية”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/barra-bint-abd-al-uzza/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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Jāhilī Marriage Forms

Four pagan marriage forms — common, istibda‘ (lending a wife for a better lineage), communal paternity assignment, and wife-swapping (al-badal) — Islam abolished all but the first.