A Thousand Splendid Suns

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The novel by Khaled Hosseini (2007): Mariam and Laila, two generations of Afghan women who meet in one house from Kabul to Kabul across thirty years of rule and war. ¹

Legacy

Its second book sold more than the first; it became one of the most read novels about the lives of Afghan women. ¹

Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan

Ibn Ishaq relates from Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn al-Fudayl from his father that Asma' bint Marwan, of Banu Umayya ibn Zayd and married to Yazid ibn Zayd of Banu Khatma, showed hypocrisy after Abu Afak's killing and composed verses reviling Islam and its people and inciting against the Prophet, which Hassan ibn Thabit answered; when it reached the Prophet he said 'is there no one to deal with the daughter of Marwan for me?' Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi heard him, went to her house that night and killed her, and the Prophet told him 'you have helped God and His Messenger, Umayr', and that no two goats would butt heads over her. Ibn Ishaq says that day was the first on which Islam became strong among Banu Khatma.

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Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan