SADAF SAID

1436-FSS/BSEDU/F22
BS EDUCATION
ISLAMIAT C
Dr- SYEDA UZMA
SUBMISSION DATE: 3 MAY 2024
ASSIGNMENT : H. Umm Habiba RA
Early life:
She was born in circa 589 or 594. She was the daughter of Abu
Sufyan ibn Harb and Safiyyah bint Abi al-'As . Abu Sufyan was
the chief of the Umayya clan , and he was the leader of the
whole Quraish tribe and the most powerful opponent of
Muhammad(pbuh) in the period 624–630. However, he later
accepted Islam and became a Muslim warrior. The
first Umayyad caliph, Muawiyah I, was Ramla's half-brother,
and Uthman ibn Affan was her maternal first cousin and paternal
second cousin.
Marriage to Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh:
Her first husband was Ubayd Allah ibn Jahsh, a brother
of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom Muhammad(PBUH) also married.
Ubayd-Allah and Ramla were among the first people to accept
Islam. In 616, in order to avoid hostilities from Quraish, they
both emigrated to Abyssinia (ethiopia), where she gave birth to
her daughter, Habibah bint Ubayd-Allah.
In Abyssinia, Ubayd-Allah converted to Christianity. He tried to
persuade Ramla to do the same, but she held on to Islam. His
conversion led to their separation (Ibn Hajar, Al-Isabah, vol. 4,
p. 305).
Marriage to Muhammad:
Muhammad sent Ramla a proposal of marriage, which arrived
on the day she completed her iddah (widow's waiting period).
The marriage ceremony took place in Abyssinia even though
Muhammad was not present. Ramla chose Khalid ibn Said as
her legal guardian at the ceremony. The Negus (King) of
Abyssinia read out the Khutba himself, and Khalid ibn
Said made a speech in reply. The Negus gave Khalid a dower of
400 dinars and hosted a huge wedding feast after the ceremony.
He also sent musk and ambergris to the bride through the slave
Barrah . Muhammad did not give a dower larger than this to any
of his other wives.
The Negus then arranged to send all thirty of the remaining
immigrant Muslims back to Arabia. They travelled to Medina in
two boats. Shurahbil ibn Hasana accompanied Ramla on this
journey. According to some sources, she married Muhammad
one year after the Hijra , though she did not live with him until
six years later, when Muhammad was sixty years old and she
was thirty-five. Tabari writes that her marriage took place in 7
A.H. (628) when "she was thirty-odd years old.”
Life in Medina:
On one occasion, Abu Sufyan visited his daughter Ramla in her
house in Medina. "As he went to sit on the apostle’s carpet she
folded it up so that he could not sit on it. 'My dear daughter,' he
said, 'I hardly know if you think that the carpet is too good for
me or that I am too good for the carpet!' She replied: 'It is the
apostle’s carpet and you are an unclean polytheist. I do not want
you to sit on the apostle’s carpet.' 'By God,' he said, 'since you
left me you have gone to the bad.'
Ramla died in the year 45 A.H. (664 or 665 C.E.) during the rule
of her half-brother, Muawiyah I. She was buried in the Jannat al-
Baqi cemetery next to other wives of Muhammad.[3]
Legacy :
The Hadith literature includes about sixty-five hadiths narrated
by Ramla. Muhammad al-Bukhari and Muslim ibn al-
Hajjaj agreed on two of them, and Muslim took two of them
alone.