Khawla bint Jaʿfar al-Ḥanafiyya (Arabic: خولة بنت جعفر الحنفية), also known as Umm Muḥammad (Arabic: أُمّ مُحَمَّد), was one of the wives of the Muslim caliph and Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib.

Khawla bint Ja'far al-Hanafiyya
خولة بنت جعفر الحنفية
Personal
Born
Died
Medina, Hejaz, Arabia
Resting placeAl-Baqi Cemetery, Medina
SpouseAli (m. likely 632)
ChildrenMuhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya
Parents
  • Ja'far ibn Qays (father)
  • Asma bint Amr (mother)
Known forWife of Ali
RelativesBanu Hanifa (clan)

Biography

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Khawla was known as al-Hanafiyya after her tribe Banu Hanifa. After Abu Bakr became caliph, the people of Yamama refused to pay Zakat (religious tax), forming a strong army and following a self-proclaimed prophet from their tribe called Musaylima. They fought against the Muslims until they were defeated by the Muslim general Khalid ibn al-Walid. Consequently, some of those who fought (or helped) against Muslims from Banu Hanifa were enslaved. Then Ali ransomed Khawla and set her free and, after the death of his wife Fatima, married her, after which she became pregnant and gave birth to Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya.[1][2]

Her important descendants

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Quraysh tribe
Waqida bint AmrAbd Manaf ibn QusaiĀtikah bint Murrah
Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf‘Abd ShamsBarraHalaMuṭṭalib ibn Abd ManafHashimSalma bint Amr
Umayya ibn Abd ShamsʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
HarbAbū al-ʿĀsʿĀminahʿAbdallāhHamzaAbī ṬālibAz-Zubayral-ʿAbbās Abū Lahab
ʾAbī Sufyān ibn Harbal-ḤakamʿUthmānʿAffānMUHAMMAD
(Family tree)
Khadija bint KhuwaylidʿAlī
(Family tree)
Khawlah bint Ja'farIbn Abbas
Muʿāwiyah IMarwān IʿUthmān ibn ʿAffānRuqayyaFatimahMuhammad ibn al-HanafiyyahʿAli ibn ʿAbdallāh
SufyanidsMarwanidsal-Ḥasanal-Ḥusayn
(Family tree)
Abu Hasim
(Imām of al-Mukhtār and Hashimiyya)
Muhammad
"al-Imām"

(Abbasids)
Ibrāhim "al-Imām"al-Saffāḥal-Mansur

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Short Biographies of the Prophet and His Ten Companions who Were Given the Tidings of Paradise. 2004. ISBN 9789960899121.
  2. ^ History of the Prophets and Kings.