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Ramla bint Abi Sufyan


Ramla bint Abi Sufyan (Arabic: رملة بنت أبي سفيان‎‎; c.594-665) also known as Umm Habiba (Arabic: أم حبيبة‎‎) was a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers.

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 Quraysh tribe and the most powerful opponent of Muhammad in the period 624-630. However, he later accepted Islam and became a Muslim warrior. The first Ummayad caliph, Muawiyah I, was Ramla's half-brother, and Uthman ibn Affan was her maternal first cousin and paternal second cousin.

Her first husband was Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh, a brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom Muhammad married in 627.

Ubaydullah bin Jahsh 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.

Ubaydullah bin Jahsh died while still in Abyssinia

Muhammad sent Ramla a proposal of marriage, The Negus (King) of Abyssinia sent his maid Abraha, to carry the message. Ramla gladly accepted the proposal, and gave her silver bangles and rings as a gift to the messenger.


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