Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib explained

Umaymah bint Abd al-Muttalib أميمة بنت عبد المطلب
Birth Place:	Mecca, Hejaz, Arabia
Death Place:	Hejaz, Arabia
Other Names:	Bint Abd al-Muttalib
Known For:	Paternal aunt of Muhammad
Spouse:	Jahsh ibn Riyab
Father:	Abd al-Muttalib
Mother:	Fatima bint Amr
Relations:	Brothers: Sisters:
Children:	Sons: Daughters:
Family:	Banu Hashim (by birth) Banu Asad (by marriage)

Umaymah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (Arabic: أميمة بنت عبد المطلب) was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Biography

She was born in Mecca, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiya.^[1]

She married Jahsh ibn Riyab, an immigrant from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe,^{[2] [3]} and they had six children.

1. Abd Allah.^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}
2. Ubayd Allah.^{[8] [9] [10]}
3. Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.^{[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]}
4. Abd, who was always known as an adult by his kunya, Abu Ahmad.^{[17] [12] [18] [19]}
5. Habiba, also known as Umm Habib.^{[20] [21]}
6. Hamna.^{[22] [23] [24]}

It is not recorded that Umayma ever became a Muslim, and she did not accompany her children on their Hijra to Medina in 622 CE.^[25] She was still alive in 628, when Muhammad assigned her an annual pension of 40 of dates from Khaybar.^[26]

Notes and References

1. Book: ibn Saad, Muhammad. Tabaqat vol. 8: The Women of Madina. 1995. 33. Ta-Ha Publishers.
2. Book: Muhammad ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasul Allah(The Life of Muhammad). 1955. 116. Oxford University Press.
3. Bewley/Saad, p. 33.
4. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 146, 168, 215-217, 230, 286-289, 388, 401.
5. Bewley/Saad, p. 173.
6. Watt/McDonald/Tabari, p. 139.
7. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 7. Translated by McDonald, M. V. (1987). The Foundation of the Community, pp. 18-23, 29, 134, 137. New York: State University of New York Press.
8. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 99, 146, 529.
9. Bewley/Saad, p. 68.
10. Poonawala/Tabari, p. 133.
11. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 495.
12. Ibn Hisham note 918.
13. Bewley/Saad, pp. 72-81.
14. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 8. Translated by Fishbein, M. (1997). The Victory of Islam, pp. 1-4, 61. New York: State University of New York Press.
15. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 9. Translated by Poonawala, I. K. (1990). The Last Years of the Prophet, pp. 23, 127, 134, 137, 168. New York: State University of New York Press.
16. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 39. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors, pp. 9, 180-182. New York: State University of New York Press.
17. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 116, 215-217, 230.
18. Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 80-81.
19. Al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, vol. 6. Translated by Watt, W. M., & McDonald, M. V. (1988). Muhammad at Mecca, p. 139.
20. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 523.
21. Bewley/Saad, pp. 170-171.
22. Guillaume/Ishaq, pp. 215, 389, 495, 499, 522.
23. Bewley/Saad, pp. 33, 170.
24. Fishbein/Tabari, pp. 61, 63.
25. Guillaume/Ishaq p. 215.
26. Bewley/Saad p. 33.