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Umm Kulthum bint Uqbah, The woman who fled alone

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CompanionThe woman who fled alone

Umm Kulthum bint Uqbahأم كلثوم بنت عقبة

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A Makkan woman who walked alone to Madinah after Hudaybiyyah, prompting a verse on women emigrants.

Though her father Uqbah ibn Abi Mu'ayt was a bitter enemy of Islam, Umm Kulthum believed and, after the truce of Hudaybiyyah, fled to Madinah on her own. Her brothers came to take her back under the treaty, but Allah revealed that believing women who emigrate are not to be returned to the disbelievers.

What does the Quran say?

O you who have believed, when the believing women come to you as emigrants, examine them. Allah is most knowing as to their faith. And if you know them to be believers, then do not return them to the disbelievers; they are not lawful [wives] for them, nor are they lawful [husbands] for them. But give the disbelievers what they have spent. And there is no blame upon you if you marry them when you have given them their due compensation. And hold not to marriage bonds with disbelieving women, but ask for what you have spent and let them ask for what they have spent. That is the judgement of Allah; He judges between you. And Allah is Knowing and Wise.

Quran 60:10

Who else is linked?

MadinahUthman ibn AffanUqbah ibn Abi Muayt

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