Sunday, February 28, 2010
Maria al-Qibtiyya
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Maria al-Qibtiyya
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maria al-Qibtiyya (Arabic: مارية القبطية) (alternatively, "Maria Qupthiya"), or Maria the Copt, (died 637) was anEgyptian Coptic Christian slave who was sent as a gift from Muqawqis, a Byzantine official, to the Islamicprophet Muhammad in 628.[1] According to some Islamic accounts, she was Muhammad's wife, and therefore a "Mother of the Believers" (Arabic: Ummahat-al-Mu'mineen). She was the mother of Muhammad's son Ibrahim, who died in infancy. Her sister, Sirin, was also sent to Muhammad; Muhammad gave her to his follower Hassan ibn Thabit.[2] Maria never remarried after Muhammad's death in 632, and died five years later. Her birthdate is unknown. No primary source mentions her age.
Year of the deputations
In the Islamic year 6 AH (627 – 628 CE), Muhammad is said to have written letters to the great rulers of theMiddle East, proclaiming the new faith and inviting the rulers to join. What purport to be texts of some of the letters are found in Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari's History of the Prophets and Kings, which was written some 250 years after the events it chronicled. Tabari writes that a deputation was sent to an Egyptian governor named as al-Muqawqis. A note in the State University of New York edition of Tabari states that this seems to be a version of Cyrus of the Caucasus, who was the Byzantine Patriarch of Alexandria.[3] The note adds that Cyrus did not become Patriarch until 631, and that an account placing him in Egypt three or four years earlier is therefore questionable.
Tabari does, however, recount the story of Maria's arrival from Egypt
In this year Hātib b. Abi Balta'ah came back from al-Muqawqis bringing Māriyah and her sister Sīrīn, his female mule Duldul, his donkey Ya'fūr, and sets of garments. With the two women al-Muqawqis had sent a eununch, and the latter stayed with them. Hātib had invited them to become Muslims before he arrived with them, and Māriyah and her sister did so. The Messenger of God lodged them with Umm Sulaym bt. Milhān. Māriyah was beautiful. The Prophet sent her sister Sīrīn to Hassān b. Thābit and she bore him 'Abd al-Rahmān b. Hassān.
Maria in Muhammad's household
Muhammad S.A.W.W lived in a mud-brick dwelling next to the Medina mosque, and each of his wives had her own mud-brick room, built in a line next to his. Maria, however, was lodged in a house on the edge of Medina
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