Safiyya bint Huyayy

Mother of the Believers
Safiyya bint Huyayy
صفية بنت حيي‎
Bornc. 610–614 CE
Yathrib, Arabia
Diedc. 664–672 CE
Medina, Umayyad Caliphate
Resting placeAl-Baqi Cemetery, Medina
Known forBeing widowed and taken captive during the Battle of Khaybar in 628
Spouse(s)Sallam ibn Mishkam
(m. 624; div. 625)
Kenana ibn al-Rabi
(m. 627; died 628)
Muhammad
(m. 628; died 632)
Parents
FamilyBanu Nadir (by birth)
Ahl al-Bayt (by marriage)

Safiyya bint Huyayy (Arabic: صفية بنت حيي Ṣafiyya bint Ḥuyayy) was a Jewish woman from the Banu Nadir tribe. After the Battle of Khaybar in 628, she was widowed and taken captive by the early Muslims and subsequently became Muhammad's tenth wife.[1] Like all other women who were married to Muhammad, Safiyya was known to Muslims as a "Mother of the Believers".[2] Their marriage produced no children and ended with Muhammad's death in Medina in 632.

  1. ^ Safiyya bint Huyay, Fatima az-Zahra by Ahmad Thompson
  2. ^ Stowasser, Barbara. The Mothers of the Believers in the Hadith. The Muslim World, Volume 82, Issue 1-2: 1-36.