Juwayriyya bt. al-Harith

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Juwayriyya bt. al-Harith
Wife of the Prophet (s)
Full NameBarra bt. al-Harith
EpithetUmm al-Mu'minin
Well-known AsJuwayriyya
Birth2 years before Bi'that/607-8
Place of ResidenceMedina
Death/Martyrdom56/675-6
Burial PlaceAl-Baqi' cemetery, Medina
EraEarly Islam


Name Date of Marriage
Khadija (28 BH/595)
Sawda (before Hijra/before 622)
Aisha (1,2, or 4/622, 623, or 625)
Hafsa (3/624)
Zaynab (bt. Khuzayma) (3/624)
Umm Salama (4/625)
Zaynab (bt. Jahsh) (5/627)
Juwayriyya (5 or 6/626 or 627)
Umm Habiba (6 or 7/627 or 628)
Mariya (7/628)
Safiyya (7/628)
Maymuna (7/628)

Juwayrīyya bt. al-Hārith (Arabic: جُوَیریه بنت حارث) (b. 2 years before Bi'that/607-8 - d. 56/675-6) was one of the wives of the Prophet (s). After her husband was killed in the Battle of Banu l-Mustaliq by Muslims, she was captured and became a slave woman. She asked the Prophet (s) to help her gain her freedom; so the Prophet (s) bought her and freed her. Then, the Prophet (s) proposed to her and she got married to him in 5/626-7 or 6/627-8. Juwayriyya has narrated few hadiths form the Prophet (s).

Name and Lineage

Her original name was Barra (which means a beautiful woman who entraps her husband), but after her marriage to the Prophet (s), he changed her name to Juwayriyya.[1] She, like other wives of the Prophet (s), was titled as Umm al-Mu'minin (Mother of the faithful). His father was al-Harith b. Abi Dirar, the head of Banu l-Mustaliq tribe.[2] As she was from Banu l-Mustaliq, which was a sub-clan of Khuza'a tribe, she was called al-Mustaliqiyya and al-Khuza'iyya.[3]

Marriage to the Prophet (s)

After that her husband was killed in the Battle of Banu l-Mustaliq, she was captured by Muslims and became a slave woman. She asked the Prophet (s) to help her gain her freedom. The Prophet (s) bought her and freed her. Then the Prophet (s) proposed to her and she got married to him in 5/626-7 or 6/627-8. As her mahr (dowry) the Prophet (s) freed forty slaves of Banu l-Mustaliq; Muslims followed the Prophet (s) and freed all the captives from that battle.[4] she was twenty when she married the Prophet (s).[5]

Narration

She narrated few hadiths. 'Abd Allah b. al-'Abbas and Mujahid b. Jabr al-Makki have narrated hadiths from her.[6]

Demise

Juwayriyya passed away in 56/675-6, during the reign of Mu'awiya, in Medina. Marwan b. al-Hakam, the governor of Medina, performed her Funeral prayer and she was buried in al-Baqi' cemetery.[7]

Notes

  1. Wāqidī, al-Maghāzī, vol. 1, p. 412; Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 8, p. 118-119.
  2. Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 2, p. 63-64; vol. 8, p. 116-117.
  3. Samʿānī, al-Ansāb, vol. 5, p. 312; Ibn Ḥajar, al-Iṣāba, vol. 7, p. 565.
  4. Sijistānī, Sunan-i Abī Dāwūd, vol. 2, p. 236.
  5. Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 8, p. 120.
  6. Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, vol. 35, p. 146.
  7. Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 8, p. 120; Ibn ʿAsākir, Tārīkh madīnat Dimashq, vol. 3, p. 219.

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