Sayyidah Umm Kulthūm (R)
The Blessed Daughter of Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)
• Sayyidah Umm Kulthūm (R) was elder than her sister Sayyidah Fātimah (R) and was the third daughter of Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). (al-Istī’āb, al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah)
• Sayyidah Umm Kulthūm (R) was born when Nabī was in his late thirties. (ibid)
• She was named Umm Kulthūm, which is not a name but an agnomen in Arabic. (Dhakhā’ir al-’Uqbā)
• Kulthūm in Arabic means: A person with clear and plumped cheeks; which is indicative towards her beauty.
• Like her sisters, she professed Islam upon the hands of Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) with her mother Sayyidah Khadījah (R). (Ṭabaqāt Ibn Sa’d).
• Nabī (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) married her to ‘Utaybah, the second son of Abū Lahab, but upon the command of his father he divorced her before consummation. (Siyar A’lām al-Nubalā’, Usd al-Ghābah)
• After the emigration of Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), she and Sayyidah Fātimah (R) migrated alongside the other relatives of Rasūlullāh to Madīnah. (Ṭabaqāt Ibn Sa’d, al-Iṣābah)
• Sayyidinā ‘Umar (R) had offered his daughter Sayyidah Hafsah (R) to ‘Uthmān (R), but he refused. Upon his refusal ‘Umar complained to Nabī who remarked, “He will marry someone better than her,” i.e. Umm Kulthūm. (al-Iṣābah)
• Thus after the demise of Sayyidah Ruqayyah (R), Allah ordered Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) to wed Sayyidah Umm Kulthūm to Sayyidinā ‘Uthmān (R). (Sunan Ibn Mājah)
• The nikāḥ was solemnised in Rabī’ al-Awwal and the reception took place three months later in Jumād al-Ākhirah in 3 A.H. (al-Istī’āb, Usd al-Ghābah)
• Thus Sayyidinā ‘Uthmān became the only man in history to have ever married two daughters of a nabī. (Usd al-Ghābah)
• Sayyidinā ‘Uthmān (R) and Sayyidah Umm Kulthūm (R) were married for six years. (Tabaqāt Ibn Sa’d)
• Sayyidinā Anas (R), the servant of Nabī (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), said, “I once saw Umm Kulthūm wearing a striped silken garment.” (Sahīh al-Bukhārī)
• She passed away in the month of Sha’bān in 9 A.H, and her age was approximately twenty five when she passed away. (Tabaqāt Ibn Sa’d, al-Isābah)
• Sayyidah Safīyyah, the aunt of Nabī (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), Asmā’ bint ‘Umays—the wife of Abū Bakr, and Umm ‘Aṭīyah—an Ansārī woman, bathed and shrouded her. (Usd al-Ghābah, Tabaqāt Ibn Sa’d)
• Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) had instructed them to bathe her three, five, or more times. (al-Istī’āb, Usd al-Ghābah)
• He had also given his loin cloth to them and ordered them to include it in her winding sheet. (Usd al-Ghābah)
• Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) himself performed her funeral prayer. (Tabaqāt Ibn Sa’d)
• Sayyidinā Anas (R) reports that before her burial, Rasūlullāh (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) was seen weeping at her grave. (Tabaqāt Ibn Sa’d, al-Isābah)
• Sayyidinā ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib, FaDl ibn ‘Abbās, Usāmah ibn Zayd, and Abū TalHah al-Ansārī (R) descended into her grave for her burial. (Usd al-Ghābah, Tabaqāt Ibn Sa’d)
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