Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) allowed Sahla, the wife of Abu Hudhaifa, to nurse Salim to establish the foster relationship between them even though Salim was by then already an adult. This incident has given rise to a lot of discussion and polemics in our times. The instant study is about analyzing the […]
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Waqar Akbar Cheema 1. Introduction Prophet Muhammad’s (ﷺ) marriage with Safiyya bint Huyayy from the Jewish tribe of Nadir has been of regular interest to modern Western critics, missionaries, and orientalists. The objections are mostly raised on two accounts: (i) The marriage was solemnized in the aftermath of the conquest of the last Jewish stronghold
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Waqar Akbar Cheema [divider] 1. Introduction Non-Muslims often ask as to why the Prophet Muhammad had more wives than allowed for other Muslim men.[1] Some of them use this to allege that it was his sensual passion that made the Prophet of Islam not merely polygamous it also got him to break the laws he
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Waqar Akbar Cheema[divider] Abstract The question about Prophet Muhammad’s (ﷺ) alleged inconsistency in taking more wives than allowed for Muslim men has generally been responded to by alluding to the Qur’anic verses that granted him certain marriage related privileges. The summary response, though correct, has faded some historical facts of Prophet’s (ﷺ) life bearing on
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Waqar Akbar Cheema[divider] The information below follows our earlier post mentioning basic facts about the marriages of the Prophet (ﷺ) in which we put together basic information about the wives of the Prophet (ﷺ) with whom his marriages were consummated along with mention of his concubines. In this piece we record the received information regarding
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Waqar Akbar Cheema [divider] It is well known that Hind bt. ‘Utbah (d. 14/635), the wife of Abu Sufyan b. Harb (d. 31/652), chewed the liver of Hamza b. ‘Abdul Mutalib after he was killed by a slave named Wahshi (d. ca 25/645) during the Battle of Uhud (Shawal 3/December 624), the second major encounter
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Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract The story of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) allegedly falling in love with his cousin and wife of his adopted son Zaid, Zainab bt. Jahsh, has been a subject of a lot of disputation for centuries. It is generally discussed in connection with Qur’an 33:37. In this paper an effort has been made to
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Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract With the onset of modernity, the biographic details of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) have come under a lot of scrutiny along with, in some cases, attempts at revisionism. One such controversy concerns how old Khadija was when she married the Prophet (ﷺ). This paper surveys the various transmitted opinions regarding her age
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