Umaymah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib () was a paternal aunt of the

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Biography

She was born in

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, the daughter of Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim and Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiya. She married Jahsh ibn Riyab, an immigrant from the Asad ibn Khuzayma tribe, and they had six children. # Abd Allah. # Ubayd Allah. # Zaynab, later a wife of Muhammad.Ibn Hisham note 918. # Abd, who was always known as an adult by his ''kunya'', Abu Ahmad. # Habiba, also known as Umm Habib. # Hamna. It is not recorded that Umayma ever became a

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, and she did not accompany her children on their '' Hijra'' to

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in 622 CE. She was still alive in 628, when Muhammad assigned her an annual pension of 40 of dates from

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.Bewley/Saad p. 33.

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{{Islam-bio-stub Family of Muhammad Banu Hashim 6th-century Arab people