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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Maymunah bint Al-Harith Al-Hilaliyyah<br>{{small|[[Muhammad's wives|Mother of the Believers]]}}<br />
| native_name = {{lang|ar|مَيْمُونَة بِنْت ٱلْحَارِث ٱلْهِلَالِيَّة}}<br />
| birth_name = Barrah bint al-Harith <br> {{lang|ar|بَرَّة بِنْت ٱلْحَارِث}}<br />
| birth_date = {{circa|594 [[Common Era|CE]]}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mecca]], [[Hejaz]], [[Arabia]] {{small|(present-day [[KSA]])}}<br />
| death_date = [[Dhu al-Hijjah]], 51 [[Islamic year|A.H.]]; {{circa|January 671 CE}}<br />
| death_place = Sarif, Hejaz, [[Umayyad Caliphate]]<br>{{small|(present-day KSA)}}<br />
| resting_place = Sarif, Hejaz<br />
| known_for = [[Muhammad's wives|Eleventh wife]] of [[Muhammad]]<br />
| spouse = {{ubl|Abu Ruhm ibn Abdul Uzza {{small|(widowed)}}|[[Muhammad ibn Abdullah]] {{small|({{abbr|m.|married}} 629 – till his death in 632)}}}}<br />
| title = ''Ummul-Muʾmineen''<br />
| father = Al-Harith ibn Hazn<br />
| mother = [[Hind bint Awf]]<br />
| relatives = {{ubl|[[Lubaba bint al-Harith|Umm Fadl]] (full sister)|[[Zaynab bint Khuzayma|Zaynab]] (maternal half-sister)|[[Asma bint Umais|Asma]] (maternal half-sister)|[[Salma bint Umays|Salma]] (maternal half-sister)|[[Abd Allah ibn Abbas|Ibn Abbas]] (maternal nephew)|[[Khalid ibn al-Walid]] (maternal nephew)}}<br />
| family = {{ubl|[[Banu Hilal]] (by birth)|[[Ahl al-Bayt]] (by marriage)}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Maymunah bint al-Harith al-Hilaliyyah''' ({{lang-ar|مَيْمُونَة ٱبْنَت ٱلْحَارِث ٱلْهِلَالِيَّة|Maymūnah ibnat al-Ḥārith al-Hilālīyah}}; {{circa|594–671}}),<ref name="Bhala">{{Cite book |title=Understanding the Islamic Law |author=Raj Bhala |chapter=Maymuna bint al-Harith |quote=According to sources Maymuna bint al Harith (594-674) was the last woman whom Prophet Mohammad married.}}</ref> was the eleventh and final wife of [[Muhammad]].<ref name="IbnHajar"/> Her original name was '''Barrah''' ({{lang-ar|بَرَّة|link=no}}), which Muhammad changed it to Maymunah, meaning "good tidings", as his marriage to her marked the first time in seven years when he could enter his hometown of [[Mecca]] from [[Medina]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Bint Al-Shāṭīʾ |title=The Wives of the Prophet |year=2006 |publisher=[[Gorgias Press]] |location=[[Piscataway, New Jersey]], the [[United States|U.S.A.]] |isbn=978-1-59333-398-0 |pages=222–224 |edition=Facsimile repr.}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
Her father was Al-Harith ibn Hazn from the [[Banu Hilal|Hilali tribe]] of Mecca. Her mother was [[Hind bint Awf]] from the [[Himyar]]i tribe in [[Yemen]]. Her full sister was [[Lubaba bint al-Harith|Lubaba the Elder]]. Her paternal half-sisters were Layla (Lubaba the Younger), Huzayla and Azza. Her maternal half-siblings were Mahmiyah ibn Jaz'i al-Zubaydi, [[Asma bint Umays]] (a wife of [[Abu Bakr]]), [[Salma bint Umays]] (a wife of [[Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib]]) and Awn ibn Umays.<ref name="Landau-Tasseron-Tabari_1998">{{cite book |last=Al-Tabari |first=Muhammad ibn Jarir |author-link=Al-Tabari |title=''Tarik ul-Rasul wa'l-Muluk'' ([[History of the Prophets and Kings]]) |volume=39 |translator-last=Landau-Tasseron |translator-first=E. |year=1998 |chapter=Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors |pages=177–201 |location=[[New York City|New York]] |publisher=[[State University of New York Press]]}}</ref>{{rp|201}} [[Ibn Kathir]] also mentions a tradition that [[Zaynab bint Khuzayma]] (a wife of Muhammad) was another maternal sister brother.<ref name="LeGassick-IbnKathir_2000">{{cite book |author=Ismail ibn Umar ibn Kathir |author-link=Ibn Kathir |title=''Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah'' (The Life of the Prophet) |volume=3 |translator-last=Le Gassick |translator-first=T. |year=2000 |page=122 |location=[[Reading, Berkshire]], [[England]], the [[United Kingdom|U.K.]] |publisher=Garnet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul73yY_htWAC&pg=PR15 |isbn=978-1-8596-4142-2}}</ref><br />
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==Marriage==<br />
Maymunah was first married to Abu Ruhm ibn Abd al-Uzza who later died. Not much is known about him. In 629, [[Muhammad]] married her in a place known as Sarif, about {{cvt|10|mi}} from Mecca, just after the [[The first pilgrimage|Lesser Pilgrimage]].<ref name="Landau-Tasseron-Tabari_1998" />{{rp|186}}<ref name="IbnHajar">{{cite book |author=Ibn Hajar |author-link=Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani |title=''[[Al-Isabah fi tamyiz al Sahabah]]'' |volume=8 |pages=192–531 |language=ar}}</ref>{{rp|531}} She was in her late 30s when she married him.<ref name="Bhala" /> Maymuna lived with Muhammad for three years until his death in 632.<br />
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==Death==<br />
[[File:ضريح السيدة ميمونة بنت الحارث عليها السلام3.jpg|thumb|Grave of Maymunah in Sarif ({{coord|21|34|00.66|N|39|46|19.45|E|type:landmark_scale:5000_region:SA|name=Grave of Maymunah bint Al-Harith}}), next to the road from Mecca to Medina (Highway 15)]]<br />
Maymuna is believed to have died in the month of [[Dhu al-Hijjah]], 51 [[Islamic year|AH]]; January 671 CE.<ref name="IbnHajar"/> Her death date is debated however. According to Al-Tabari: "Maymuna died in the year 61 AH (680–681 CE) during the caliphate of [[Yazid I]]. She was the last of the wives of the Prophet to die, and her age was then 80 or 81."<ref name="Landau-Tasseron-Tabari_1998" />{{rp|186}} However, Al-Tabari asserts elsewhere that [[Hind bint Abi Umayya|Umm Salama]] outlived Maymuna.<ref name="Landau-Tasseron-Tabari_1998" />{{rp|177}}<br />
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Ibn Hajar also cites a tradition implying that Maymuna predeceased [[Aisha bint Abi Bakr|Aisha]]: "We stood on the walls of Medina, looking out … [Aisha said]: 'By Allah! Maymuna is no more! She has gone, and you are left free to do whatever you like. She was the most pious of all of us and the most devoted to her relatives.'"<ref name="IbnHajar" />{{rp|192}}<ref name="Al-Nishapuri">{{cite book |author=Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abdullah Al-Hakim Al-Nishapuri |author-link=Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri |title=''[[Al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn]]'' |volume=4 |page=32 |language=ar}}</ref><br />
==See also==<br />
* [[Adnan]]<br />
** [[Adnanites|Adnanite]] [[Arabs]]<br />
* [[Family tree of Muhammad]]<br />
** [[Banu Hashim]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://archive.today/20030822025422/http://dictionary.al-islam.com/Arb/Dicts/SelDict.asp?TL=1&DI=23&Theme=43 Al Islam Dictionary]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030817022225/http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~naqobatulasyrof/prophet/news_prophet_04.html Roots Web]<br />
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