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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|One of the wives of Muhammad}}<br />
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| name = Rayhana bint Zayd<br/>{{small|[[Muhammad's wives|Mother of the Believers]]}}<br />
| image = File:Rayhana bint Zayd RA.png<br />
| native_name = {{lang|ar|ريحانة بنت زيد}}<br />
| birth_date = Unknown<br />
| birth_place = <br />
| death_date = 51 [[Islamic year|A.H.]]; {{circa|631}}<br />
| death_place = [[Medina]], Hejaz {{small|(present-day Saudi Arabia)}}<br />
| resting_place = [[Al-Baqi Cemetery]], Medina<br />
| spouse = [[Muhammad]] ({{abbr|m.|married}} 627; till her death in 631 CE) (disputed)<br />
| family = [[Banu Nadir]] (by birth)<br />
}}<br />
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'''Rayhānah bint Zayd''' ({{lang-ar|ريحانة بنت زيد}}) was a Jewish woman from the [[Banu Nadir]] tribe, who became a wife of the [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]], after the [[Invasion of Banu Qurayza|Incident of Banu Qurayza]] in 627 [[Common Era|CE]] (5 [[Hijri year|AH]]).<ref>{{citation| title=The last years of the Prophet (translated by Isma'il Qurban Husayn)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxG8BsHNw-MC&pg=PA119| first=Al| last=Tabari| date=25 September 1990| publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=9780887066917}}</ref><ref name="rod213">Rodinson, ''Muhammad: Prophet of Islam'', p. 213.</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>{{citation| title=The Sealed Nectar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ppPqzawIrIC&pg=PA189| first=Safiur| last=Rahman al-Mubarakpuri| year=2005| publisher=Darussalam Publications| page=189| isbn=9798694145923 }} ([http://www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/SM_tsn/ch4s8.html online]).</ref> She is considered by some Muslims as being one of [[Muhammad's wives]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Rayhana was born into the Banu Nadir tribe, and became part of the [[Banu Qurayza]] tribe upon her marriage.<ref>Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, S. (2005). The Sealed Nectar. Darussalam: Darussalam Editing, p. 201.</ref><ref>Abdul-Rahman, M. S. (2009). Tafsir Ibn Kathir Juz’ 21 (Part 21): Al-Ankabut 46 To Al-Azhab 30. Londra: MSA Publication Limited, p. 213.</ref><br />
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[[Ibn Sa'd]] wrote that Rayhana went on to be manumitted and subsequently married to Muhammad upon her conversion to Islam.<ref>[[Alfred Guillaume|Guillaume, Alfred]]. ''The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah'', p. 466. Oxford University Press, 1955. {{ISBN|0-19-636033-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Ibn Sa'd| title = Tabaqat | pages= vol VIII, pg. 92–3| no-pp = true}}</ref> [[Abu Ishaq al-Tha'labi|Al-Tha'labi]] agreed that she became one of Muhammad's wives and cited evidence that he paid a [[mahr]] for her. [[Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani|Ibn Hajar]] makes reference to Muhammad giving Rayhana a home upon their marriage.<ref>Ibn Hajar. ''Isabaha''. Vol. IV, pg. 309.</ref> Antonie Wessels suggested that Muhammad married Rayhana for political reasons due to her dual affiliation with both the Banu Nadir and Banu Qurayza tribes, while Lesley Hazleton felt it was evidence of Muhammad creating alliances.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ostle|first=R. C.|date=1974|title=Antonie Wessels: A modern Arabic biography of Muḥammad: a critical study of Muḥhammad Ḥusayn Haykal's Hayāt MuḤammad. xii, 272 pp. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. Guilders 50.|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x00127673|journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies|volume=37|issue=3|pages=689–690|doi=10.1017/s0041977x00127673|s2cid=161497336 |issn=0041-977X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Hazleton|first=Lesley|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/858946813|title=The first Muslim : the story of Muhammad|date=2013|isbn=978-1-101-60200-3|location=New York|oclc=858946813}}</ref> Conversely, Barakat Ahmad felt such rationale to support the notion of Rayhana and Muhammad's marriage was "meaningless" due to the annihilation of both tribes by Muhammad's forces.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ahmad|first=Barakat|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6330142|title=Muhammad and the Jews : a re-examination|date=1979|publisher=Vikas|others=Indian Institute of Islamic Studies|isbn=0-7069-0804-X|location=New Delhi|oclc=6330142}}</ref><br />
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Similar to [[Maria al-Qibtiyya]], there is not universal consensus among Islamic scholars as to whether Rayhana was officially one of Muhammad's wives.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Bennett|editor1-first=Clinton|title=In Search of Muhammad|date=1998|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=9780304704019|page=[https://archive.org/details/insearchofmuhamm00benn/page/251 251]|edition=reprint|url=https://archive.org/details/insearchofmuhamm00benn/page/251}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Fred James Hill|author2=Nicholas Awde|title=A History of the Islamic World|date=2003|publisher=Hippocrene Books|isbn=9780781810159|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780781810159/page/24 24]|edition=illustrated|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780781810159/page/24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Jerome A. Winer|editor1-last=Winer|editor1-first=Jerome A.|editor2-last=Anderson|editor2-first=James W.|title=The Annual of Psychoanalysis, V. 31: Psychoanalysis and History|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134911820|page=216}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=David S. Powers|title=Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet|date=2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812205572|page=8}}</ref> Hafiz ibn Minda and [[Shibli Nomani]], for example, believed that she returned to the Banu Nadir upon her manumission.<ref name="Nomani">Nomani, Shibli (1979). ''The Life of the Prophet''. Vol. II, pg. 125–6</ref><br />
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Rayhana died in 631, 11 days after ''hajj'', and was buried at the [[Al-Baqi'|Al-Baqi Cemetery]] in [[Medina]] along with other wives of Muhammad.<ref>{{cite book| last = al-Halabi| first = Nur al-Din| title = Sirat-i-Halbiyyah | publisher = Idarah Qasmiyyah Deoband | pages= vol 2, part 12, pg. 90 |location = Uttar Pradesh| no-pp = true}} Translated by Muhammad Aslam Qasmi.</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of non-Arab Sahabah]]<br />
* [[Companions of the Prophet|Companions of the prophet]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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