Ruqayya Daughter of the Prophet (s): Difference between revisions

Ruqayya the daughter of the Prophet (s) (رُقَیة بنت رسول الله) (d. 2/624) at first married [[‘Utbat b. Abi Lahab]], but when [[Surat al-Masad]] revealed, she separated from her husband and married [[‘Uthman b. ‘Affan]]. She emigrated twice. She finally passed away in 2/623 and was buried in [[Baqi’ Cemetery]].

In the opinion of some Shi’a scholars such as [[Sayyid Ja’far Murtida ‘Amili]], Ruqayya was not the daughter of the Prophet (s) and Khadija, but she was the daughter of Hali, sister of Khadija, and because she was brought up in the Prophet (s)’s house, she was known as the daughter of the Prophet (s).

[[Ruqayya bint Khadija bint Khuwaylid]] was born before [[Hijra]] in [[Mecca]]. She was described as the oldest or second or even the youngest daughter of the Prophet (s).

Ruqayya married [[‘Utbat b. Abi Lahab]], but when Surat al-Masad was revealed, ‘Utba [[divorced]] her by the order of his father, Abu Lahab. After that she [[married]] [[‘Uthman b. ‘Affan]] and emigrated with him to [[Abyssinia]]. When the Prophet (s) immigrated from [[Mecca]] to [[Medina]], she emigrated from Abyssinia to Medina.
[[Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr]] and [[Ibn Sa’d]] said that she had a son named ‘Abd Allah, who died in childhood.

When the Prophet (s) was on his way to the [[Battle of Badr]], Ruqayya got typhoid and the Prophet (s) order ‘Uthman to stay with her. Ruqayya passed away in [[Ramadan]] 2 (March 624) (on the day of Muslim’s victory in the [[battle of Badr]]).

Shi’a sources, however, reported a different cause for her death: ‘Uthman beat her severely accusing her of revealing the hiding place of [[Mughayrat b. Abi al-‘As]] to the Prophet (s).

In her burial, the Prophet (s) prevented ‘Uthman from entering her grave by saying “Whoever had intercourse last night will not enter the grave.”

Her name is mentioned in a supplication of the month or Ramadan: “O, Allah send your peace upon Ruqayya the daughter of your Messenger …”

The building on the graves of the Prophet’s daughters: [[Ruqayya]], [[Umm Kulthum]] and [[Zaynab]], was located on north of the Shi’a Imams’s graves and on the southwest of the Prophet’s wives’s graves. However, historical sources reported that she was buried near the grave of [[‘Uthman b. Maz’un]] due to the Prophet’s (s) order. In the past, there was a brass burial chamber on their (the Prophet’s daughters) graves. The building was destroyed by [[Wahhabis]].

But there are different standpoints about her among Shi’a scholars:

• Ruqayya -the wife of ‘Uthman- was not the daughter of the Prophet (s); but she was the daughter of Hale, sister of Khadija, and was brought up in the Prophet’s (s) house. Ruqayya -the daughter of the Prophet (s)- was born after [[Bi’tha]].

• Ruqayya was the daughter of Khadija not the Prophet’s. Because Khadija had married to other men before her marriage to the Prophet (s).

• Ruqayya was the daughter of Khadija and the Prophet (s).