Umm Ḥakīm bint al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ( Arabic : أم حكيم بنت الحارث إبن هشام ) was a female disciple (known in Arabic as Sahaba or companions ) of Islamic prophet Muhammad . She was a wife of Umar , the second caliph of Islam .
12-546: Umm Hakim was the daughter of al-Harith al- Makhzumi (ibn Hisham ibn al-Mughira ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Makhzum). Her mother's name was Fatima bint al-Walid ibn al-Mughira ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Makhzum. She was wife of Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl , who was killed in the Battle of the Yarmuk . According to another source, she was married to Abu Sa'id Khalid ibn Sa'id on the evening preceding Battle of Marj al-Saffar , Abu Sa'id
24-466: A stipend lower than others in the army because of his relatively late conversion to Islam. Unhappy with his pay, he permanently established himself in Syria with seventy members of his family. Accounts in the traditional Islamic sources about the date and cause of his death vary, with a number of sources reporting that he died in battle at Ajnadayn in 634 or at Yarmouk in 636, while others holding that he died in
36-527: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article related to an Asian military person is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Al-Harith ibn Hisham Al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīra ibn ʿAbd Allāh (died 634, 636 or 639), was a companion of Muhammad , a noble of the Banu Makhzum and a participant in the Muslim conquest of Syria until his death. Al-Harith
48-460: The Muslims . She, along with other women, beat drums as they led the group of Quraysh women onto the battlefield. In 630 CE, when the Muslims conquered Mecca , Umm Hakim converted to Islam along with the other Quraysh. Subsequently, Umm Hakim convinced her husband Ikrima to accept Islam. After Abu Sa'id was killed, Umm Hakim single-handedly killed seven Byzantine soldiers with a tent pole near
60-401: The plague of Amwas in 639. In any case, by the latter date, all but two or four of his seventy family members had died in Syria, in battle or due to plague. One of al-Harith's few surviving sons, Abd al-Rahman , was brought back to Medina by Umar, one of whose wives had been al-Harith's daughter Umm Hakim , and rewarded him with an allotment of land. He fathered an influential family of
72-853: The Makhzum in Medina, having thirteen or fourteen sons and eighteen daughters. The family forged marital ties with other families of the Makhzum, as well as with the Umayyads and the Zubayrids , both Qurayshite contenders for control of the caliphate during the First and Second Muslim Civil Wars . Chehab family, the former ruling dynasty of the Mount Lebanon Emirate descends from Al-Harith ibn Hisham. Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham Umm Ḥakīm bint al-Ḥārith ibn Hishām ( Arabic : أم حكيم بنت الحارث إبن هشام )
84-691: The Muslim army against the Arab polytheists at the Battle of Hunayn in 630 and was given a share of the war spoils from that engagement. Al-Harith participated in the Muslim conquest of Syria , successively fighting in the battles of Ajnadayn in Palestine and Fahl in Transjordan, both in 634. He fought under his paternal first cousin Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Yarmouk in 636. In 637 Caliph Umar gave al-Harith
96-451: The other Quraysh. Subsequently, Umm Hakim convinced her husband Ikrima to accept Islam. After Abu Sa'id was killed, Umm Hakim single-handedly killed seven Byzantine soldiers with a tent pole near a bridge which is now known as the Bridge of Umm Hakim near Damascus , during the battle of Marj al-Saffar in 634. This biographical article about a person notable in connection with Islam
108-479: Was a female disciple (known in Arabic as Sahaba or companions ) of Islamic prophet Muhammad . She was a wife of Umar , the second caliph of Islam . Umm Hakim was the daughter of al-Harith al- Makhzumi (ibn Hisham ibn al-Mughira ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Makhzum). Her mother's name was Fatima bint al-Walid ibn al-Mughira ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Makhzum. She was wife of Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl , who
120-620: Was a son of the prominent pre-Islamic Qurayshite Hisham ibn al-Mughira of the Banu Makhzum clan in Mecca . Al-Harith's brother was Abu Jahl , the leader of Meccan opposition to the Islamic prophet Muhammad until his death at the Battle of Badr in 624. Al-Harith also fought against the Muslims at Badr and again at the Battle of Uhud near Medina in 627. Al-Harith embraced Islam during Muhammad's conquest of Mecca in 629/30. Afterward, he fought in
132-405: Was killed in the Battle of the Yarmuk . According to another source, she was married to Abu Sa'id Khalid ibn Sa'id on the evening preceding Battle of Marj al-Saffar , Abu Sa'id was killed in the battle. Later she was married to Umar ibn al-Khattab , from whom she had a daughter named Fatima. In the battle of Uhud she accompanied Ikrima and other Quraysh of Mecca who fought against
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#1733086337350144-422: Was killed in the battle. Later she was married to Umar ibn al-Khattab , from whom she had a daughter named Fatima. In the battle of Uhud she accompanied Ikrima and other Quraysh of Mecca who fought against the Muslims . She, along with other women, beat drums as they led the group of Quraysh women onto the battlefield. In 630 CE, when the Muslims conquered Mecca , Umm Hakim converted to Islam along with
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