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Khadijah bint Khuwaylid Sawda bint Zama Aisha bint Abi Bakr Hafsa bint Umar Zaynab bint Khuzayma Hind bint Abi Umayya Zaynab bint Jahsh Juwayriya bint al-Harith Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan Rayhana bint Zayd Safiyya bint Huyayy Maymuna bint al-Harith Maria al-Qibtiyya

Sawda bint Zama ibn Qayyis ibn Abd Shams (Arabic: سودة بنت زمعة‎) was a wife of Muhammad, and therefore a Mother of the Believers and one of the early converts to Islam.

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She was of the Quraysh tribe on her father's side. According to the traditions,she migrated to Abyssinia with her first husband, after being persecuted by the Polytheists of Mecca. Her husband died when the couple returned to Mecca. ^[1]

Muhammad married her in Shawwal, in the tenth year of His Prophethood, a few days after the death of Khadijah. Prior to that, she was married to a paternal cousin of hers called As-Sakran bin ‘Amr. ^[2] She was considered homely and was older than Muhammad. ^[3] However, she can not be older than Muhammad, if she really died in October 674 as mentioned below. Since Muhammad was born in 570, that would mean that she has lived more than 104 years which is less likely in those days.^{[citation needed]}

After Muhammad's death, Sawda received a gift of money, which she spent on charity. Muawiyah I, the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty bought her house in Medina for 180,000 dirhams. She died in Medina in October 674.

The name of her previous husband was Sakran, and she had a son from him named Sakran ibn Amr ibn Abd Shams who fell a martyr fighting in the Battle of Jalula in 637 AD.^[4]

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• 2 Muslims.com
• Islam.About.com