Rayhana bint Zayd

Muhammad's concubine or twelfth wife (d. 631)

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Lived 590–631, aged 41

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590–631
Aged 41

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Rayhana bint Zayd converted to Islam from a Jewish tribe, then became Muhammad's concubine during the 627 siege of Banu Qurayza. Their relationship lasted until her death in Medina four years later.

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Rayhana bint Zayd was a Jewish convert to Islam from the Banu Nadir. Through marriage, she was also a part of the Banu Qurayza, another local Jewish tribe. During the siege of Banu Qurayza in 627, she was widowed and taken captive by the early Muslims and subsequently became a concubine and according to some also a wife of Muhammad. Their relationship produced no children and in 631 she died while in her home city of Medina.

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