Ruqayyah bint Muhammad (601-March 624) was the daughter of Muhammad and Khadija bint Khuwaylid and the wife of Uthman.
Biography[]
Ruqayyah bint Muhammad was born in Mecca in 601, the daughter of Muhammad and Khadija bint Khuwaylid. She was the third child and second daughter of Muhammad, and, in 610, she was briefly married to her cousin Utbah ibn Abu Lahab, although the marriage was never consummated, as she was nine years old. She became a Muslim when her mother died, and, by 615, she was married to Uthman, a prominent Muslim. She suffered a miscarriage during the family's exile in Abyssinia in 616, and they returned to Mecca in 619 and emigrated to Medina in 622. She fell ill in March 624, and Uthman was released from his military duties in order to nurse her. She died shortly after the Battle of Badr.