Hind bint Utbah was the wife of Abu-Sufyan ibn Affan and mother of Muawiyah I, the first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate.
Biography[]
Hind bint Utbah was the daughter of Utbah ibn Rabi'ah, and she was the sister of sahabi Abu Hudhayfah ibn 'Utba and Walid ibn Utbah. After two marriages, she married Abu-Sufyan ibn Affan, her cousin on both sides of the family, in 599. She lamented the deaths of her father, son, brother, and uncle, all killed at the Battle of Badr, and Abu Sufyan vowed to avenge the loss of her family. At Uhud, she sang and danced to urge on the Quraysh warriors against the Muslims, and she urged on the slave Wahshi ibn Harb to kill Hamza ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib to avenge her family's deaths. However, she would convert to Islam on Mecca's fall in 630, and she fought at the Battle of Yarmouk in 636 out of fear that the Byzantine Empire would enslave the Arab women if they were captured. Her date of death is unknown