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Hind al-Hunnud

Hind bint ʿUtbah
Arabic: هند بنت عتبة
Born unknown 6th century
Arabia
Died unknown 7th century
Rashidun Caliphate
Other names Hind al-Hunūd (Arabic: هند الهنود)
Spouse(s) Ḥafṣ ibn Al-Mughīra
Al-Fākih ibn Al-Mughīra
Abū Ṣufyān ibn Ḥarb
Children ʾAbān ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Al-Mughīra
Muʿāwiyah ibn ʾAbī Ṣufyān
ʿUtbah ibn ʾAbī Ṣufyān
ʾUm al-ḥakm bint ʾAbī Ṣufyān
Juwayriyya bintʾAbī Ṣufyān
Parent(s) ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah
Ṣafiyah bint ʾumayyah

Hind bint ‘Utbah (هند بنت عتبة) was an Arab woman who lived in the late 6th and early 7th centuries CE; she was the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, a powerful man of Mecca, in western Arabia. She was the mother of Muawiyah I, the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, and of Hanzala, Juwayriya and Umm Hakam.Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan, who became one of Muhammad's wives, was her stepdaughter.

Both Abu Sufyan and Hind originally opposed the Islamic prophet Muhammad before their conversion to Islam in 630.

She was born in Mecca, daughter of one of the most prominent leaders of the Quraysh, Utbah ibn Rabi'ah, and of Safiya bint Umayya. She had two brothers: Abu-Hudhayfah ibn 'Utbah and Walid ibn Utbah. Her father and her paternal uncle Shaibah ibn Rabī‘ah were among the chief adversaries of Islam who eventually were killed by 'Ali in the Battle of Badr.

Her first husband was Hafs ibn Al-Mughira from the Makhzum clan, to whom she bore one son, Aban. Hafs died young after an illness. Hind then married his brother al-Fakah, who was much older than she was, but she accepted him because she wanted her son to grow up within his father's family. Al-Fakah owned a banqueting hall that the public were allowed to enter freely. One day he left Hind alone in the hall and returned home to see one of his employees leaving in a hurry. Assuming that his wife had a lover, he kicked her and asked her who the man had been. She replied that she had been asleep and did not know that anyone had entered; but al-Fakah did not believe her and he divorced her immediately.


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