Zayd ibn Umar
زَيْد ابْنِ عُمَر
Born
Medina, Hejaz, Arabia (present-day KSA)
Died
Medina, Hejaz, Rashidun Caliphate (present-day KSA)
Resting placeMedina
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Zayd ibn ʿUmar (Arabic: زَيْد ابْنِ عُمَر), was a son of the second caliph Omar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and his wife Umm Kulthum bint Ali, a granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Biography

He was the son of Umar ibnul Khattab and Umm Kulthum bint Ali.[1]

He was killed while trying to bring peace to his clan of Banu Adi.[citation needed]

He left no descendants.[1]

Marriage of his parents

Ali wanted his daughters to marry his brother Ja'far's sons, but Umm Kulthum's hand in marriage was requested by the Caliph, who promised, "No man on the face of the earth will treat her better than I will."[2]: 299 

Ali protested that she had not yet reached puberty,[2]: 299, 300  but Umar commanded that she be presented to him. Ali gave his daughter a striped garment and instructed her: "Take this to the Commander of the Faithful and tell him: 'My father says, "If you like this garment, keep it; if you don't like it, return it."'" When Umm Kulthum brought this message to Umar, she reported, "He did not undo the garment nor look at anything except at me." He told her that he was pleased, and so Ali consented to the marriage.[2]: 299–300  Umar gave his bride a dowry of 40,000 dirhams,[3] and the marriage was consummated in November or December 638 (Dhu'l-Qaada 17 AH).[4]

They had two children Zayd and Ruqayya.[2]: 299, 300 [1] Ruqayya later married Ibrahim, a son of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, by whom she had a daughter.[5]

His mother Umm Kulthum gifted some perfume to the Empress of Byzantium. The Empress sent back a "superb" necklace for Umm Kulthum. Umar believed that his wife should not have conducted a private correspondence at the expense of the state postal service, so he reimbursed her for the cost of the perfume and placed the Empress's necklace in the state treasury.[6] Nevertheless, it was said that Umar treated Umm Kulthum "with extreme honour and respect" because she was Muhammad's granddaughter.[7]

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References

  1. ^ a b c Muhammad ibn Saad. Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir vol. 3. Translated by Bewley, A. (2013). The Companions of Badr, p. 204. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
  2. ^ a b c d Muhammad ibn Saad. Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir Volume 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995). The Women of Madina. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
  3. ^ Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk. Translated by Smith, G. R. (1994). Volume 14: The Conquest of Iran, p. 101. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  4. ^ Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk. Translated by Juynboll, G. H. A. (1989). Volume 13: The Conquest of Iraq, Southwestern Persia, and Egypt, pp. 109-110. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  5. ^ ibn Sa'd, Muhammad; Bewley, Aisha (2000). The Men of Madina. Vol. Two. Ta-Ha. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-897940-90-7.
  6. ^ Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk. Translated by Humphreys, R. S. (1990). Volume 15: The Crisis of the Early Caliphate, p. 28. Albany: State University of New York Press
  7. ^ Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Kathir. Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya. Translated by Le Gassick, T. (2000). The Life of the Prophet Muhammad Volume 4, p. 438. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing.
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