His Wives & Children

With regard to Hazrat Umar’s (ra) wives and children, it is mentioned that he had a total of 10 wives, from whom he had nine sons and four daughters; one of whom was Hazrat Hafsa (ra), who had the honour of being a wife of the Holy Prophet (sa). The first wife of Hazrat Umar (ra) was Hazrat Zainabra bint Maz‘un – she was the sister of Hazrat Uthman (ra) bin Maz‘un – and with her, he had Abdullah, Abdur Rahman Akbar and Hazrat Hafsa.

[Another wife is] Hazrat Umm Kulthum bint Ali bin Talib (ra), from whom he had Zaid, Akbar and Ruqayyah.

Mulaika bint Jarwal, who was also known as Umm Kulthum, from whom he had Zaid, Asghar and Ubaidullah.

[Another wife was] Quraibah bint Abi Umayyah Makhzumi. Since Mulaikah and Quraibah did not accept Islam, Hazrat Umar (ra) divorced both of them in 6 AH.

[Another wife was] Hazrat Jamilahra bint Thabit – her name was Asiyah, but the Holy Prophet (sa) gave her the name Jamilah. She was the sister of Hazrat Asim (ra) bin Thabit, who took part in the Battle of Badr. With her, he had a son named Asim.

From Lauhiyah he had a son named Abdur Rahman Ausat. Regarding the former it is said that she was “Umm Walad”, which means when one marries a concubine and has a child from her, and thus she becomes free. There was another Umm Walad, through whom he had a son called Abdur Rahman Asghar. With Hazrat Umm Hakim bint Harith, he had Fatimah; with Fuqaihah, he had Zainab and with Hazrat Atiqah bint Zaid, he had a son named Iyad.

(Al-Khulafa al-Rashidun, Muhammad Raza. P. 100, Dar al-Kutub al-Arabi, Beirut, 2004) (Al-Faruq, Shibli Nomani, p. 404, Dar al-Isha‘ah, Karachi, 1991) (Ali Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah fi Ma‘rifat al-Sahabah, Vol. 7 [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 2003], p. 53)