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347:. Whenever Hind passed Wahshi, she supposedly called, "Come on, black man! Satisfy your vengeance and ours!" because Hamza was the one who had killed her uncle. Wahshi speared Hamza in the height of the battle; after Hamza was killed, Wahshi returned to retrieve his spear and then left the battle. According to some sources, Hind chewed the liver of a mutilated Hamza though these sources are considered weak and unauthentic by Sunni scholars. 271:
innocent, so Utba called the soothsayer. Hind was sitting among a crowd of women; the soothsayer walked up, struck her on the shoulder and said, "Arise, you chaste woman and no adulteress. You will give birth to a King!" Al-Fakah then took her hand, ready to accept her back as his wife; but Hind withdrew her hand and said, "Go away, for I shall make sure to bear him to some other man."
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enter freely. One day he left Hind alone in the hall and returned home to see one of his employees leaving in a hurry. Assuming that his wife had a lover, he kicked her and asked her who the man had been. She replied that she had been asleep and did not know that anyone had entered; but al-Fakah did not believe her and he divorced her immediately.
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Hind then found herself the subject of gossip. Her father Utba asked her to tell the truth about her divorce. "If the accusations are true, I will arrange to have al-Fakah murdered; and if they are false, I will summon him to appear before a soothsayer from Yemen." Hind swore by the gods that she was
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At one point, when arrows started raining down on Abu Sufyan and he tried to turn his horse away, Hind struck his horse in the face with a tent-peg and said: "Where do you think you're going, O Sakhr? Go back to battle and put effort into it until you compensate for having incited people in the past
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clan, to whom she bore one son, Aban. Hafs died young after an illness. Hind then married his brother al-Fakah, who was much older than she was, but she accepted him because she wanted her son to grow up within his father's family. Al-Fakah owned a banqueting hall that the public were allowed to
286:. In 624, Muhammad organized an attack on the caravan led by Hind and her husband, Abu Sufyan, that was traveling to Syria for trade purposes. Once they got word of the incoming attack, Abu Sufyan put word out to organize a Meccan army to defend the caravan. This led to the 407:, were instrumental in the Battle of Yarmouk. The Muslims were hugely outnumbered. Every time some men ran away, the women turned them back and fought, fearing that if they lost, the Romans would enslave them. Every time the men fled, the women would sing: 281:
From 613 to 622, Muhammad preached the message of Islam publicly in Mecca. As he gathered converts, he and his followers faced increasing opposition. In 622 they emigrated to the distant city of Yathrib, now known as
251:. She also had two sisters: Atika bint Utba and Umm Kulthum bint Utba. Her father and her paternal uncle Shaibah ibn Rabī‘a were among the chief adversaries of Islam who eventually were killed by 274:
Hind refused another suitor in order to marry Abu Sufyan, who was her maternal first cousin and paternal second cousin, c.599. Her family borrowed the jewellery of the Abu'l-Huqayq clan in
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Two of the earliest history books on Islam pay great tribute to Hind for her action in the midst of the battle. They show how the early Muslim women, including Hind bint Utba and
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After seeing the women fight, the men would return and say to each other: "If we do not fight, then we are more entitled to sit in the women's quarter than the women."
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the Muslims were outnumbered by the Byzantines, but with the help of the women and boys amongst them, defeated the
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Hind sang the same song she had sung when she fought against the Muslims in the battle of Uhud:
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in 630 and is highly praised by Sunni Islamic sources for her military role at the
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against Muhammad." An arrow later hit Abu Sufyan in the eye and he became blind.
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She was born in Mecca, daughter of one of the most prominent leaders of the
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You, O Wahshi, have assuaged the burning in my breast.
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London: Ta-Ha Publishers. 416:She is beautiful and stands firmly. 178: 92: 24: 1096:, Cambridge University Press, 1997 25: 1177: 1107: 454:Our hands are perfumed musk smell 360:I could not bear the loss of Utba 310:Smite with every sharpened spear! 446:who walk on carpets soft they be 380:until my bones rot in the grave. 1141:Women companions of the Prophet 1103:, Oxford University Press, 1956 1089:, Oxford University Press, 1955 1049: 1023: 964: 954: 928: 823: 806: 782: 757: 733: 708: 699: 675: 666: 657: 450:Our walk does friendliness tell 222: 203: 1114:Answering Ansar - a Shi'a site 624: 615: 598: 585: 556: 539: 506: 489: 442:Night star's daughters are we, 432:and start fighting themselves. 352:We have paid you back for Badr 13: 1: 517:Chronology of women's history 482: 318:spread soft rugs beneath you; 128:ʾAbān ibn Ḥafṣ ibn al-Mughīra 322:if you retreat we leave you, 230: 139:ʾUm al-ḥakm bint ʾAbī Ṣufyān 7: 705:Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 385. 672:Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 375. 663:Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 374. 654:Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 371. 642:Ibn Ishaq/Guillaume p. 337. 621:Suyuti/Jarrett pp. 200-201. 326:leave and no more love you. 306:On, protectors of our rear, 259:. 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Index

Hind bint Utbah
Mecca
Hejaz
Arabia
Rashidun Caliphate
Arabic
Abū Ṣufyān ibn Ḥarb
Muʿāwiya ibn ʾAbī Ṣufyān
ʿUtba ibn Rabīʿa
Arabic
romanized
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
Mu'awiya I
Islam
Battle of the Yarmuk
Umar
Quraysh
Utba ibn Rabi'a
Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba
Walid ibn Utba
Ali
Battle of Badr
Makhzum
Medina
Medina
Battle of Badr
Battle of Uhud
Jubayr ibn Mut'im
Wahshi ibn Harb
manumission

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