Karima bint al-Miqdad

كريمة بنت المقداد

she could write, per al-Waqidi's family chain through her niece.

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Karima daughter of al-Miqdad. Al-Baladhuri says that she used to write, in what al-Waqidi relates from Musa ibn Ya'qub from his paternal aunt from her mother. 1

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The Scribes of Quraysh and the Prophet's House

People and things also explored

Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh· al-Shifa' bint Abdullah· Hafsa bint Umar· Ubayy ibn Ka'b· Umm Kulthum bint Uqba· Zayd ibn Thabit· The Scribes of Quraysh and the Prophet's House

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh

A scribe of revelation who apostatized back to Quraysh; proscribed on the day of the Conquest, he was sheltered by his foster brother Uthman ibn Affan who pleaded for him until the Prophet granted him pardon; he returned to Islam and later governed Egypt under Umar and Uthman.