Umm Kulthum bint Uqba

Umm Kulthum bint Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt al-Umawiyya, sister of al-Walid ibn Uqba — their mother Arwa bint Kurayz, also Uthman's mother. She was of those who became Muslim early and pledged; she went out to Medina an emigrant on foot, and her brothers Umara and al-Walid followed to bring her back — she did not return ¹.

Ibn Ishaq relates in the Maghazi from al-Zuhri and Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm that she emigrated in the year of al-Hudaybiyya; her brothers came seeking her and the Prophet refused to return her to them ¹.

Ibn Sa'd says she was the first to emigrate to Medina after the Prophet's emigration — he knows of no Quraysh woman who left her two parents emigrating to God and His messenger but Umm Kulthum: she left Mecca alone and accompanied a man of Khuza'a until she arrived in the truce. Her brothers set out after her and arrived the second day of her arrival, saying: "Muhammad — our pact, honour it" — she said: "Messenger of God, I am a woman and women's lot is weakness; I fear they will tempt me in my religion." In Ibn Sa'd's account, God annulled the treaty in the case of the women and sent down the verse of examination; the Prophet examined her and the women after her: "nothing brought you out but love of God and His messenger and Islam — not love of a husband or wealth" — and when they said that, they were not returned ¹.

She had no husband at Mecca; when she came to Medina Zayd ibn Haritha married her, then al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam after Zayd's killing — she bore him Zaynab. Then he parted from her and Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf married her — she bore him Ibrahim and Humayd. Then he died leaving her, and Amr ibn al-As married her; she stayed with him a month and died ¹.

Her two sons Humayd and Ibrahim related from her; her hadith is in the two Sahihs and the three Sunans: "I did not hear him — meaning the Prophet — give licence in anything of what people say that is lying except in three" ¹. Al-Nasa'i narrates in al-Kubra a hadith of hers on the merit of Surat al-Ikhlas ¹.