Ruqayyah bint Muhammad (Arabic: رقية بنت النبي Ù…Øمد) was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Khadija. Ruqayyah died in 2 A.H., at the time of the battle of Badr.
In Medina
The medieval Shiite cleric Muhammad Baqir Majlisi wrote that she was killed by her husband Uthman.
Sunni and Shia views
The Sunni Muslims believe that all four of Khadija's daughters are from her marriage to Muhammad. The Sunni scholar Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr says:
His children born of Khadīja are four daughters; there is no difference of opinion about that.
While this view is shared by some Shiites, others consider Fatimah as the only biological daughter of Muhammad and they argue their rationale regarding this matter by using some historical traces. In the incident of Mubahala in which Muhammad was ordered to invite Christian disputants and accompany his family members for the imprecation, as mentioned by Quran3:61, there was no female accompanied by Muhammad apart from Fatimah.
Shiites believe that Fatimah is the only female who is recognized among the five members of Ahlul Bayt (along with Muhammad, Ali, Hasan, Husain according to the purification verse in Quran33:33). According to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the expression Ahlul Bayt can only mean the family of Muhammad and in spite of the claims of many members of the community and Muhammad's relatives for a place in the Ahlul Bayt, and the later efforts to include Muhammad's wives, the number of privileged is limited to those five members.
See also
- Fatima bint Muhammad
- Zainab bint Muhammad
- Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad
- Genealogy of Khadijah's daughters
- Sahaba