Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad

Umm Kulthum, daughter of the Prophet. Uthman married her after the death of her sister Ruqayya, who had been his wife. ¹.

Abu Umar mentions that Utba ibn Abi Lahab married her before the mission, but did not consummate the marriage. When the Prophet was sent as a messenger, his father ordered him to divorce her. Then Uthman married her after Ruqayya's death, in the year 3 AH. ¹. Ibn Sad relates that this was in Rabi al-Awwal of the year 3 AH. ². Ibn Mandah transmits, in a strange chain of transmission, a report that the Prophet married Uthman to Umm Kulthum only by revelation from heaven. The text is described as “strange, and known only through this chain.” ².

• Was she the youngest of the Prophet's daughters, or was Fatima? ¹
• The time of the divorce of the two sons of Abu Lahab: Ibn Hajar transmits an opinion that Utba and Utayba divorced Ruqayya and Umm Kulthum before consummation, when the Surat al-Masad was revealed. He prefers this over what Abu Umar mentions following Ibn Sad, that the marriage took place before the mission, because Zaynab was the eldest daughter and she was born ten years before the mission. ².

She died while still married to Uthman, in Shaban of the year 9 AH, and she had no children by him. ². Ibn Hajar reports from Anas that he saw the Prophet at her grave, with his eyes filled with tears, and he asked, “Is there anyone among you who did not have intercourse last night?” Abu Talha said, “I did.” The Prophet said, “Go down into her grave.” ². Al-Waqidi said that Ali, al-Fadl and Usama ibn Zayd (may God be pleased with him) went down into her grave. ².

Ibn Hajar also reports that Asma bint Umays said that she washed Umm Kulthum and Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib (may God be pleased with her). In another report, Umm Atiyya was among those who washed her. ².

The Sealed Nectar lists the Prophet's children by Khadija: al-Qasim, then Zaynab, then Ruqayya and Umm Kulthum, Fatima, and Abdullah. It states that all the daughters lived to see Islam, became Muslim and emigrated, and that death overtook them during his lifetime, except for Fatima. ^{3 4 5}.