Durra bint Abi Lahab

Durra bint Abi Lahab ibn Abd al-Muttalib al-Hashimiyya, the Prophet's cousin. She became Muslim and emigrated ¹.

Ibn Abd al-Barr mentions she was with al-Harith ibn Nawfal (may God be pleased with him) ibn al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib, bearing him Uqba, al-Walid and others. Ibn Sa'd said al-Harith ibn Amir ibn Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf ibn Qusayy married her and she bore him al-Walid and Abu al-Hasan; he became Muslim then was killed at Badr a disbeliever, and Dihya ibn Khalifa al-Kalbi succeeded him over her ¹. Al-Baladhuri mentions Zayd ibn Haritha (may God be pleased with him) married her — perhaps before al-Harith ibn Nawfal — and it is said Dihya al-Kalbi (may God be pleased with him) married her ².

Ibn Abi Asim, al-Tabarani and Ibn Manda relate — through Abd al-Rahman ibn Bishr, who is weak — that Durra came to Medina an emigrant and lodged in Rafi' ibn al-Mu'alla's house; women of Banu Zurayq told her: "you are the daughter of Abu Lahab, in whom God's saying descended in al-Masad 1". She went to the Prophet and told him; he prayed the noon prayer with the people, sat on the pulpit and said: "people, why am I being hurt in my family? By God, my intercession reaches my kin — even Suda', Hukm and Sulhab will it reach on the Day of Resurrection" ¹.

Ibn Manda recorded, through Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik al-Nawfali who is feeble, a similar story about Subay'a bint Abi Lahab. Ibn Hajar says: she may have had two names, or one of them a nickname, or the story may have recurred for two women; Abu Nu'aym said Durra is the right one ².

Al-Daraqutni in al-Ikhwa, Ibn Adi and Ibn Manda record from Ali from Durra her saying: the Prophet said: "the living are not to be hurt by the dead" ².