Atiqa bint Zayd

Atiqa bint Zayd was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a wife of Umar the second Caliph. She was a poet who is notable for having married men who died as shahids.

She was the daughter of Zayd ibn Amr, a member of the Adi clan of the Quraysh in Mecca, and of Umm Kurz Safiya bint al-Hadrami.Sa'id ibn Zayd was her brother. Their father was murdered in 605.

Atiqa was probably still a child when Muhammad declared himself to be a prophet in 610. Sa'id was among the early converts, and Atiqa became a Muslim too.

Her first husband was her cousin, Zayd ibn al-Khattab, who was much older than herself. He was also a Muslim, and it was presumably in his company that Atiqa joined the general emigration to Medina in 622.

This marriage apparently ended in divorce, for Atiqa had already remarried by the time of Zayd's death at the Battle of Yamama in December 632.

Her second husband was Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr. It was said that Abdullah respected Atiqa's judgment more than his own and that he spent so much time with her that he was too busy to fight in the Islamic army.

Abu Bakr punished his son by ordering him to divorce her. However, Al-Baladhuri says that the reason Abu Bakr ordered the divorce was because Atiqa was barren. Abdullah did as he was told but was grief-stricken. He wrote poetry for her:

I have never known a man like me divorce a woman like her,
nor any woman like her divorced for no fault of her own.

In the end Abdullah was allowed to take Atiqa back before her waiting period was completed.

When Muhammad died in 632, Atiqa composed an elegy for him.

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