List of Muhammads Wives and Concubines

According to multiple sources, Muhammad had many wives and concubines.

• Muhammad married 15 women and consummated his marriages with 13. (al-Tabari vol.9 p.126-127)
• "The Prophet used to visit all his wives in a round, during the day and night and they were eleven in number." - Sahih Bukhari 1:5:268

Wives

The following is rough list of Muhammad’s wives, according to various Islamic sources^[1]. It is possible that this number may still fall short of the actual number of wives he had.

1. Khadija/Khadijah^[2]
2. Sauda/Sawda bint Zam'a/Zam’ah ^[3]
3. 'A’isha ^[4]
4. ‘Umm Salama ^[5]
5. Hafsa/Hafsah ^[6]
6. Zainab/Zaynab bint Jahsh ^[7]
7. Juwairiya/yya/yah ^[8]
8. Omm/Umm Habiba ^[9]
9. Safiya/Safiyya/Saffiya ^[10]
10. Maimuna/Maymuna bint Harith ^[11]
11. Fatima/Fatema/Fatimah ^[12]
12. Hend/Hind ^[13]
13. Sana bint Asma’ / al-Nashat ^[14]
14. Zainab/Zaynab bint Khozayma/Khuzaima ^[15]
15. Habla ^[16]
16. Divorced Asma’ bint Noman ^[17]
17. Divorced Mulaykah bint Dawud ^[18]
18. Divorced al-Shanba’ bint ‘Amr ^[19]
19. Divorced al-‘Aliyyah ^[20]
20. Divorced ‘Amrah bint Yazid ^[21]
21. Divorced an Unnamed Woman ^[22]
22. Qutaylah bint Qays ^[23]
23. Sana bint Sufyan ^[24]
24. Sharaf bint Khalifah ^[25]

Concubines

According to Merriam-Webster, a concubine is "a woman with whom a man cohabits without being married: as a: one having a recognized social status in a household below that of a wife".^[26]

Many hadith specifically state that Muhammed had concubines. Here are a few of them:

1. Mary/Mariyah the Copt/Christian ^[27]
2. Rayhana/Raihana/Rayhanah bint Zaid/Zayd ^[28]
3. Divorced Omm/Umm Sharik / Ghaziyyah bint Jabir ^[29]
4. Maymuna / Maimuna ^[30]
5. Zainab ^[31]
6. Khawla / Khawlah bint al-Hudayl ^[32]

See Also

• Lists - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Lists
• Muhammad's Wives - A hub page that leads to other articles related to Muhammad's wives and concubines

External Links

• Concubinage - Wikipedia

References