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Maria al-Qibtiyya

Maria al-Qibtiyya

February 16, 637

Slave, Concubine

Born in
Byzantine Empire
Passed away in
Medina

Māriyya bint Shamʿūn al-Qibtiyya, better known as Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya or al-Qubṭiyya (Arabic: مارية القبطية), or Maria the Copt, died 637, was a Coptic Egyptian woman who along with her sister Sirin bint Shamun, was given as a slave to the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a gift in 628 by Al-Muqawqis, a Christian governor of Alexandria, during the territory's Sasanian occupation. It is a subject of speculation whether she married Muhammad or continued to be a concubine.

She spent the rest of her life in Medina, and had a son, Ibrahim, with Muhammad. The son died in his infancy, aged 2, and she died almost five years later.

Al-Maqrizi says that she was a native of Hebenu a village located near Antinoöpolis.

Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_al-Qibtiyya