The Children of Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ (radiyallahu ‘anhum)

[Shehzad Sattar]

The Children of Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ (radiyallahu ‘anhum)

[All except Ibraaheem were born to Khadeejah (radiyallaahu `anha)]

AL-QAASIM:

Born in Makkah before Islaam. Died at the age of two after being able to walk.

The first of the children to die.


ZAYNAB:

Born in Makkah before Islaam. She married Abul-`Aas ibn ar-Rabee` ibn `Abd-Shams (her cousin: son of her mother’s sister Haalah) – in the lifetime of her mother, after Prophethood. She accepted Islaam and performed the Hijrah to al-Madeenah, six years before her husband. He accepted Islaam and joined her in Muharram 7H. She gave birth to a daughter Umaamah (who married `Alee after the death of Faatimah) and a son `Alee ibn Abil-`Aas (who it is said to have died as a child). She died in the beginning of 8H.


RUQAYYAH:

Born in Makkah before Islaam. She married `Utbah ibn Abee Lahab, but after the revelation of Sooratul-Lahab he separated from her on the orders of his father, doing so before having relations with her. She accepted Islaam along with her mother and sisters, and married `Uthmaan ibn `Affaan, and performed the two Hijrahs to Abysinnia with him. She gave birth to `Uthmaan’s son `Abdullaah [who died at the age of six]. Then she performed the Hijrah to al-Madeenah after `Uthmaan. She became ill before Badr, and died in Ramadaan, 2H.


UMM KULTHOOM:

Born in Makkah before Islaam. It is said that she married `Utaybah ibn Abee Lahab, who separated from her on the orders of his father, before having relations with her. She accepted Islaam and performed the Hijrah to al-Madeenah. After the death of Ruqayyah she married `Uthmaan in Rabee’ul-Awwal, 3H. She did not give birth to any children and died in Sha`baan, 9H.


FAATIMAH:

Born in Makkah shortly before Prophethood. She married `Alee after Badr in 2H. She gave birth to al-Hasan, al-Husayn, al-Muhassin, Umm Kulthoom and Zaynab. She died in 11H, six months after her father ﷺ.


‘ABDULLAAH: (‘at-Tayyib’, ‘at-Taahir’: the good and pure):

Born in Makkah after Islaam, and died as a baby.

The second of the children to die.


IBRAAHEEM:

His mother was Maariayh al-Qibtiyyah. He was born in al-Madeenah in Dhul-Hijjah, 8H and died at the age of 17 or 18 months in 10H.

[Taken from ‘Siyar A`laamin-Nubalaa.’ of adh-Dhahabee & ‘as-Seeratun-Nabawiyyah’ of Ibn Katheer.]

[Translated by Aboo Talhah Daawood ibn Ronald Burbank rahimahullaah]

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