Al-Muqaddimāt al-Mumahhidāt - Ibn Rush al-Jadd - (3/361)

Al-Muqaddimāt al-MumahhidātIbn Rush al-Jadd

Ahmad ibn Sālih al-Misrī among the Prophet’s wives, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. To my knowledge, no one else listed her among them. This was stated by Ibn Abd al-Barr.

Section on the Prophet’s Concubines, May Allah Bless Him and Grant Him Peace

The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took Māriyah the Copt as a concubine. She was Māriyah bint Shamūn, whom al-Muqawqis, ruler of Alexandria and Egypt, presented to him as a gift. She bore him his son Ibrāhīm in Dhū al-Hijjah, 8 AH. Ibrāhīm died among Banū Māzin, in the care of his wet nurse Umm Burdah, in 10 AH, aged eighteen months. It is also said that he was sixteen months old when he died. Another account places his death on the tenth of Rabī‘ al-Awwal, 10 AH. Māriyah died during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattāb, may Allah be pleased with him, in Muharram, 16 AH. Umar personally gathered the people to attend her funeral, led the funeral prayer over her, and she was buried in al-Baqī‘.

He also took Rayhānah bint Shamūn as a concubine. She belonged to Banū Qurayzah, though it is also said that she belonged to Banū al-Nadīr; most accounts place her among Qurayzah. He later freed her, and she returned to her people. It is also said that he married her and then parted from her; alternatively, that he died while she was still his wife, or that she died before the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Her death is said to have occurred in 10 AH, upon his return from the Farewell Pilgrimage.

Abū Ubaydah Ma‘mar ibn al-Muthannā mentioned that he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had four slave women: Māriyah the Copt; Rayhānah of Banū Qurayzah; another beautiful slave woman whom he acquired among the captives, against whom his wives plotted, fearing that she would win his affection over them; and a prized slave woman whom Zaynab bint Jahsh gave him. He had withdrawn from Zaynab over the matter of Safiyyah bint Huyayy. When he was pleased with her again and visited her, she gave him this slave woman. This occurred in the month in which he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, passed away.

Thus, the accounts mentioned give a total of fifteen wives of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, including the eleven about whom there is no disagreement and whose marriages are established through mass transmission. Allah Most High knows best.

أحمد بن صالح المصري في أزواج النبي ﷺ ولم يذكرها غيره فيهن علمت. قاله ابن عبد البر. فصل في سراري النبي ﷺ - وتسرى رسول الله ﷺ مارية القبطية، وهي مارية بنت شمعون، أهداها له المقوقس صاحب الإسكندرية ومصر، فولدت له ابنه إبراهيم في ذي الحجة سنة ثمان من الهجرة، وتوفي في بني مازن عند مرضعته أم بردة سنة عشر وهو ابن ثمانية عشر شهرا. وقيل بل توفي وهو ابن ستة عشر شهرا. وقيل إن وفاته كانت لعشر ليال خلت من ربيع الأول سنة عشر. وتوفيت مارية في خلافة عمر بن الخطاب ﵄ وذلك في المحرم من سنة ست عشرة وكان عمر يحشر الناس بنفسه لشهادة جنازتها، فصلى عمر عليها ودفنت بالبقيع. وتسرى أيضا ريحانة بنت شمعون من بني قريظة، وقيل من بني النضير، والأكثر أنها قريظة، ثم أعتقها فلحقت بأهلها. وقيل إنه تزوجها ثم فارقها، وقيل بل مات عنها وهي زوجة، وقيل ماتت قبل وفاة النبي ﷺ. ويقال إن وفاتها كانت سنة عشر مرجعه من حجة الوداع. وذكر أبو عبيدة معمر بن المثني أنه كان له ﷺ أربع ولائد: مارية القبطية، وريحانة من بني قريظة، وجارية أخرى جميلة أصابها في السبي فكادها نساءه وخفن أن تغلبهن عليه. وكانت له جارية نفيسة وهبتها له زينب بنت جحش، وكان هجرها في شأن صفية بنت حيي، فلما رضي عنها ودخل عليها وهبتها له، وذلك في الشهر الذي قبض فيه ﷺ. فيتحصل من جملة ما ذكر من أزواج النبي ﷺ الإحدى عشرة امرأة اللواتي لم يختلف فيهن ونقل التواتر أمرهن خمس عشرة امرأة، والله تعالى أعلم.