One of Prophet Muhammad

HAFSAH BINT UMAR

(PBUH) wives and Mother of
Believer
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EARLY LIFE
• Hafsah bint Umar was born to Umar bin Khattab and Zaynab bent Maz’un in the
year 605.
• She had 9 siblings, Ubaid Allah, Iyaad, Abd ar-Rahman, Abdullah, Asim, Zayd,
Fatima and Zaynab ient Umar.
•She belonged to the tribe of Quraysh.
MARRIAGE T0 KHUNAIS
• At the age of 18, Hafsah married a Companion of the Prophet called Khunais ibn
Hudhaifah.
• The couple migrated to Medina due to harsh oppression, and there they stayed in
the house of Rafa'h bin 'Abdul Munthir as a guest. Hafsah and Khunais loved their
new life in Medina.
• Khunais ibn Hudhaifah fought heroically in the Battle of Uhud and the Muslims won,
but Khuanais was badly wounded. To Hafsah’s sadness, her husband past away a few
days later in the year 624 while she was just 21 years old.
MARRIAGE TO THE PROPHET (PBUH)
• Umar bin Khattab couldn’t bear to see his daughter so sad and lonely because of
the death of Hafsah’s husband
• So a short time after Khunais’s death, Umar offered Hafsah’s hand in marriage to
Uthman bin Affan, but he said he was not planning on marriage. Umar then asked
Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, who lowered his gaze and did not answer.
• Umar became upset about this, and he told the Prophet (PBUH). Prophet Muhammad
smiled and said: ‘Allah will marry Uthman to better than your daughter and will marry
your daughter to better than Uthman.’
MARRIAGE TO THE PROPHET (PBUH)
• Umar was happy to hear this, but also a little puzzled to who this man could be. A
few days later, the Prophet’s daughter, Umm Kulthum, married Uthman, and Umar
realized half of the Prophet’s statement had become true. But who could be a better
man then Uthman?
•Then, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) proposed to Hafsah. Umar was overjoyed! He
could not believe it. Hafsah married the Prophet 3 years after Hijrah at the age of
22.
• A scholar called Sa'id bin Al-Musayyab states that Prophet Muhammad’s prediction
was right, that the Prophet was be a better husband than Uthman to Hafsah, and
Umm Kulthum was a better wife than Hafsah to Uthman.
MARRIAGE TO THE PROPHET (PBUH)
• After the marriage, Abu Bakr told Umar the reason he stayed silent when Umar
offered Hafsah’s hand in marriage was that the Prophet had told Abu Bakr that he
planned to marry Harsha. If this was not the case, Abu Bakr would be more than
happy to accept Hafsah’s hand in marriage. Umar expressed his happiness by
quoting the following ayah:
"This is by the Grace of my Lord - to test me whether I am grateful or ungrateful! And
whoever is grateful, truly, his gratitude is for himself; and whoever is ungrateful, (it is for
the loss of only himself). Certainly my Lord is Rich, Bountiful." [Noble Quran 27:40]
NOTABLE WORK
• Hafsah was known to fast a lot and frequently perform salah in the night.
•She is said to have narrated 60 hadith from Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
•When Uthman became the Khalifah/Caliph, he used Hafsah’s copy when
standardizing the Quran.
•One day the Angel Jibril told Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about
Hafsah:
"She is an often fasting and worshipping lady and she will be your wife in Paradise too."
[Mustadrak Al-Hakim 4/15]
DEATH
• Hafsah died 41 years after Hijrah at the age of 59.
• Even during her last few days in the world, she was fasting, and she died fasting.
•She was buried in al-Baqi (a cemetery in Medina) next to the other Mothers of the
Believers.
REFEREENCES
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafsa_bint_Umar
•http://www.islamswomen.com/articles/hafsah_bint_umar.php
•http://www.islamweb.net/en/article/134222/hafsah-bint-%E2%80%98umar-the-
prophet%E2%80%99s-wife-in-paradise-i
• An Nasihah Islamic Curricullum Cousebook 6 (Girls)