Those were the eleven women that the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] had married and consummated marriage with them.
He outlived two of them — Khadijah and Zainab, the Umm Al-Masakeen. Whereas the other nine wives outlived him.
The two wives that he did not consummate marriage with were, one from Bani Kilab and the other from Kindah and this was the one called Al-Jauniyah.
Besides these, he had two concubines:
i: The first was Mariyah, the Coptic (an Egyptian Christian), a present gift from Al-Muqauqis, vicegerent of Egypt —
she gave birth to his son Ibrâhim, who died in Madinah while still a little child, on the 28th or 29th of Shawwal in the year 10 A.H., i.e. 27th January, 632 A.D.
ii: The second one was Raihanah bint Zaid An-Nadriyah or Quraziyah, a captive from Bani Quraiza.
Some people say she was one of his wives.
However, Ibn Al-Qaiyim gives more weight to the first version.
Abu 'Ubaidah spoke of two more concubines, Jameelah, a captive, and another one, a bondwoman granted to him by Zainab bint Jahsh. [Za'd Al-Ma'ad 1/29]
Whosoever meditates on the life of the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh], will conceive that his marriage to this great number of women in the late years of his lifetime, after he had almost spent thirty years of his best days of youth sufficing himself to one old wife — Khadijah and later on to Sawdah, was in no way an overwhelming lustful desire to be satisfied through such a number of wives.
These marriages were in fact motivated by aims and purposes much more glorious and greater than what normal marriages usually aim at.
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Marriage life of Prophet pbuh -Justified!
SpiritualProphet [pbuh] is given (by Allâh) more freedom as regards the number of wives he can hold than other Muslims in order to achieve noble and honourable purposes. However, the treatment of the Messenger of Allâh [pbuh] to his wives was of honourable...
