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====Subsequent Career of Zayd==== | ====Subsequent Career of Zayd==== | ||
Zayd married Umm Kulthum bint Uqba al-Umayyiya, a woman even more aristocratic than Zaynab and twenty years younger. Muhammad ordered this marriage. She bore him his son Zayd and his daughter Ruqayya. Given the short duration of the marriage, they were probably twins. | Zayd married Umm Kulthum bint Uqba al-Umayyiya, a woman even more aristocratic than Zaynab and twenty years younger. Muhammad ordered this marriage. She bore him his son Zayd and his daughter Ruqayya. Given the short duration of the marriage, they were probably twins. This marriage ended in divorce, though the circumstances are not known. The child Zayd died in infancy, but Ruqayya lived to come under the protection of Caliph Uthman. | ||
Zayd married | Umm Kulthum then married Al-Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam, and Zayd married Al-Zubayr's sister Hind. Neither marriage lasted very long. Umm Kulthum engineered a divorce from Al-Zubayr, who was violent; and Zayd had not much longer to live. | ||
Zayd commanded the Muslim army at the Battle of Muta in 629 and was among the first to be killed there. | Zayd commanded the Muslim army at the Battle of Muta in 629 and was among the first to be killed there. | ||