The Beautiful Story of Lady Ruqayyah & Lady Ummu Kulthoom The Daughter of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Prophet Muhammad SAW have four daughter they are Lady Zainab, Lady Fatima, Lady Ruqayyah and Lady Ummu Kulthoom. Lady Ruqayyah Bint Muhammad was born three years after the birth of Lady Zainab ) when the Prophet Mohammad SAW was 33. She was married to Utbah, son of Abu Lahab, the Prophet Mohammad's uncle, but had not yet started living with him when Soorah Al-Lahab was revealed. Abu Lahab called his sons Utbah and Utaibah (to whom Umme Kulsum, another daughter of the Prophet Mohammad SAW was married, and said to them: "Unless you both divorce the daughters of Muhammed, I am not going to see your faces."They divorced their wives. Later, upon the fall of Mecca, Utbah embraced Islam. Hadhrat Ruqayyah after this divorce was married to Hadhrat Usman. The couple emigrated to Abyssinia twice. Lady Ummu kalthoom Bint Muhammad, (May Allah be pleased with her) was born soon after Ruqqayyah, and both of them grew together as if they were twins. Their closeness to one another greatly increased especially since their eldest sister, Zainab had married and moved to her matrimonial home. They then became ever more closed and more attached to each other. It is as if both of them had been destined for the same fate from the beginning to the end. The books of Seerah testified to this unique closeness that was between them, for, all historical narrations agreed on the fact that the two noble sisters - Ruqayyah and Ummukalthoom - shared almost everything in common. As mentioned previously Umukalthum was, like her sister, married to one of the sons of Abu Lahab (Utbah) however due to his enmity towards the Revelation, Abu Lahab forced his son to divorce Ummukalthum. Whilst Ruqqayah and Uthman migrated to Abyssinia, Umukalthum stayed home, shouldering the burdens of life with her mother, Khadija and relieving her fathers' grieves because of the polytheist's rejection. Meanwhile the people of Quraysh decided to boycott Muslims and Banu Hashim as well. They suffered an economical and social si