Hadrat Ummul-Mu’minin Zainab bint Khuzaimah (ra) — Seal of the Prophets Vol. 2
Introduction
In this discourse from The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 2), Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra) details the historical events and scholarly insights surrounding Hadrat Ummul-Mu’minin Zainab bint Khuzaimah (ra).
Book Series: The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 2)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad (ra)
Section: IX – Repeated Treachery of the Jews, Compilation and Sequence of the Holy Qur’an, Marriage of Hadrat Zainab (ra), the Great Calumny and Mischief of the Hypocrites
Pages: Book pp. 385–386 (PDF pp. 409–410)
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Historical Account
age, more or less. However, only a few months after her marriage, she passed away in Rabī‘ul-Awwal 4 A.H., and the Holy Prophetsa buried her in Jannatul- Baqī‘. Zainab bint Khuzaimahra was a very righteous and pious lady, and due to her charity, alms, and attention towards the less fortunate, she was generally known by the name of “Ummul-Masākīn.”
[Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 4, pp. 416-417, Zainab Ummul-Masākīna Wal-Mu’minīn, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) * Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 8, p. 157, Zainab bint Khuzaimah, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005)]
Birth of Ḥusainra – Sha‘bān 4 A.H.
The very same year, in the month of Sha‘bān, Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimahra was blessed with a second child, who was named Ḥusain by the Holy Prophetsa. Ḥusainra was just as dear to the Holy Prophetsa as was his brother Ḥasanra. At times, the Holy Prophetsa would refer to them as his two flowers. This is the same Imām Ḥusain (may Allāh be please with him) who met his Beloved Creator, after being cruelly martyred on the 10th of Muḥarram in 61 A.H., in the era of Yazīd bin Mu‘āwiyyah bin Abī Sufyān. To this day, in remembrance of his martyrdom, Shī‘ah people mourn and practice the custom of Ta‘ziyyah.
[Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābu Faḍā’ili Aṣḥābin-Nabiyyisa, Bābu Manāqibil-Ḥasan Wal-Ḥusainra, Ḥadīth No. 3753]
[Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 2, p. 72, Ḥusain bin ‘Alī, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005)]
[The non-Islāmic custom of wailing and beating oneself as an extreme expresson of grief. [Publishers]]
Ghazwah of Badrul-Mau‘id – Dhū Qa‘dah
In the events of the battle of Uḥud, it has already been mentioned that whilst returning from the battlefield, Abū Sufyān challenged the Muslims to both parties meeting again the following year at Badr, and the Holy Prophetsa announced his acceptance of this challenge. Hence, the following year, in 4 A.H. at the end of the month of Shawwāl, the Holy Prophetsa set out from Madīnah with a force of 1,500 Companions and appointed ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Abdullāh bin Ubayy as the Amīr in his absence.
On the other hand, Abū Sufyān bin Ḥarb also set out from Makkah with an army of the Quraish, consisting of 2,000 men. However, despite the victory at Uḥud, and a force this large, his heart was fearful and even though he was
Book Series: The Life & Character of the Seal of the Prophets (Volume 2)
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