Mrs. Umm Kulthum, daughter of the Prophet
Umm Kulthum, the daughter of the Messenger of God from Khadija, may God be pleased with her, and she is younger than Ruqayyah, because the Messenger of God married Ruqayyah to Uthman, and when she died, he married him to Umm Kulthum, He would not marry the younger one and leave the older one.
The marriage of Mrs. Umm Kulthum
The Messenger of God married Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum to Utbah and Utaiba, My son, Abu Lahab, when God Almighty revealed it.
Allah says
{تَبَّتْ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ وَتَبَّ} (المسد: 1)
{Abu Lahab’s hands become loser and loser } (Al-Masad: 1)
Abu Lahab said to his two sons: My head is forbidden from your heads, If you do not divorce the two daughters of Muhammad, Umm Jamil, their mother, said: The “firewood carrier” bint Harb bin Umayyah for her two sons: Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum are disbeliever, they are converted to a new religion,so they divorced them before consummating the marriage with them.
The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, married Ruqayyah to Uthman, and when she died, he married him to Umm Kulthum, may God be pleased with them.
His marriage to her took place in Rabi` al-Awwal of the third year, and he consummated the marriage with her in Jumada al-Akhira of the year, She did not give birth to a son from him, and she died in the year four, and the Messenger of God prayed for her
Umm Kulthum's marriage ( the details)
When Ruqayya, the daughter of the Messenger of God, died, Othman bin Affan succeeded Umm Kulthum, the daughter of the Messenger of God, She was a virgin, in the month of Rabi’ al-Awwal, in the third year of the Hijra, Saeed bin Al-Musayyab narrated that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, saw Uthman after the death of Ruqayyah, worried and anxious, and said to him: “Why do I see you so worried?” He said: O Messenger of God, Did anything happen to anyone like me? The daughter of the Messenger of God died, which I had, and my support was cut off, and the marriage between me and you was cut off, While he was conversing with him, the Prophet said: “O Uthman, this is Gabriel, peace be upon him, commanding me on behalf of God to marry you her sister, Umm Kulthum, on a dowry equivalent to her and on the same amount as her family.” so, he married her to him.
From Umm Kulthum’s positions with the Messenger
On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with them both, on the authority of Umm Kulthum, daughter of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that she said: O Messenger of God, is my husband better or Fatima’s husband? She said: The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was silent, then he said: “Your husband is from one who loves God and His Messenger, and whom God and His Messenger love, She turned her back, and he said to her: “Come on, what did you say? She said: I said: My husband is one of those who love God and His Messenger, and God and His Messenger love him, He said: “Yes, and I add that I entered Paradise and saw his house, and I did not see any of my companions higher than him in his house.”
When the Prophet married his daughter, Umm Kulthum, to Uthman,
he said to her: “Your husband is the most like people to your grandfather Abraham and your father Muhammad.”
Umm Ayyash says
The Messenger of God said: “Uthman did not marry Umm Kulthum except by inspiration from heaven.”
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, the Messenger of God said to Othman
“O Uthman, this is Gabriel telling me that God has married you Umm Kulthum is as dowery as Ruqayyah and as good as her companions.
The death of Umm Kulthum
She died in Shaban in the ninth year of the Hijra.
On the authority of Umm Attiya, she said:
The Messenger of God entered upon us while we were washing his daughter, Umm Kulthum, He said: “Wash it three or five times, or more than that if you see that, with water and lotus leaves and in the Hereafter, make camphor or something of camphor, If you are finished, let me know, When we informed him, he threw his garment to us and said: Make it touch her body.
Umm Kulthum died during the lifetime of the Prophet
In Shaban, the ninth year of the Hijra, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, sat on her grave, and Ali, Al-Fadl, and Osama descended into her hole.
On the authority of Abu Umamah, he said:
When Umm Kulthum, the daughter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was placed in the grave, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
Allah said
(مِنْهَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمْ وَمِنْهَا نُخْرِجُكُمْ تَارَةً أُخْرَى} [طه: 55])
(From it We created you, and to it We will return you, and from it We will bring you out another time.) [Taha: 55])
Then I do not know whether he said: “In the name of God, for the sake of God, and according to the religion of the Messenger of God” or not
On the authority of Anas: I saw the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
sitting on her grave -Meaning Umm Kulthum- and with tears in his eyes he said: “There is no one among you who did not touch his wife this night.” Abu Talha said: I did. He said: “Come down.”