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She was of the [[Quraish]] tribe on her father's side. According to the traditions, |
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She was of the [[Quraish]] tribe on her father's side. According to the traditions, she [[migrated to Abyssinia]] with her first husband, after being persecuted by the Polytheists of Mecca. Her husband died when the couple returned to [[Mecca]].<ref name="EI">{{cite encyclopedia | author = Vacca, V | editor = P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, [[Clifford Edmund Bosworth|C.E. Bosworth]], E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs | encyclopedia =[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]] Online| title = Sawda bint Zama ibn Qayyis ibn Abd Shams| publisher = Brill Academic Publishers | id = ISSN 1573-3912}}</ref> |
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Muhammad married Sawda one month after the death of his first wife [[Khadija]] upon suggestion of one of his companions. [[ulema|Muslim scholars]] disagree whether Muhammad married first Sawda or [[Aisha]]. Regardless, Muhammad did not consummate his marriage with Aisha for several years because she was too young, and lived with Sawda during that time.<ref name="EI"/> |
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At some point, Sawda succeeded in persuading Muhammad not to divorce her. Muhammad favored young Aisha over old Sawda, but the latter stopped him in the street and implored him to take her back. As an argument, she offered to give her turn of Muhammad's visit to Aisha. The incident resulted in the revelation of verse {{Quran-usc|4|127}} of the [[Qur'an]].<ref name="EI"/> |
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After Muhammad's death, Sawda received a gift of money, which she spent on charity. [[Muawiyah I]], the first [[caliph]] of the [[Umayyad]] dynasty bought her house in [[Medina]] for 180,000 [[dirham]]s. She died in Medina in October 674.<ref name="EI"/> |
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The name of her previous husband was Sakran, and she had a son from him named [[Abd al-Rahman ibn Sakran|Sakran ibn Amr ibn Abd Shams]]<ref>[http://www.answering-islam.de/Main///Authors/Newton/sauda.html][http://www.masnet.org/history.asp?id=289][http://donnya.wordpress.com/2006/10/09/rahasia-dibalik-perkawinan-nabi-muhammad-saw/]</ref> who fell a martyr fighting in the [[battle of Jalula]] <ref name=inter>http://www.inter-islam.org/Biographies/sawdah.htm</ref> |
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Sawda bint Zama ibn Qayyis ibn Abd Shams (Arabic: سودة بنت زمعة) was a wife of Muhammad, and therefore a Mother of the Believers and one of the early converts to Islam.
Biography
She was of the Quraish tribe on her father's side. According to the traditions,
Views
Sunni attribute an event involving her and Umar regarding "the verse of hijab",
Five traditions are said to have been narrated by her. Out of these one finds place in Sahih Bukhari [1].
Sunni view
Sunni describe her thus: Template:QuoteScholar