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Sirin bint Shamun

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Sîrîn bint Sham'ûn was an Egyptian Coptic Christian concubine, sent with her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya as gifts to the Islamic prophet Muhammad from the Sassanid official Muqawqis in 628.[1]

According to the historian Ibn Saad, both sisters converted to Islam while on their way to Arabia with the encouragement of Hatib ibn Abi Balta'ah, who had been sent as a messenger to a governor of Egypt.[2]

Sirin was married to the poet Hassan ibn Thabit, and bore a son, Abdurahman ibn Hassan.[3]

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Notes

  1. ^ Ibn Ishaq
  2. ^ Hidayatullah, A. (2010). Māriyya the Copt: gender, sex and heritage in the legacy of Muhammad’s umm walad. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 21(3), 221–243. doi:10.1080/09596410.2010.500475
  3. ^ Tabari, p. 131.

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