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Rayhana bint Zayd

600 - 631

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Rayhana bint Zayd (Arabic: ريحانة بنت زيد, romanized: Rayḥāna bint Zayd; died c. 631 CE) was a Jewish convert to Islam from the Banu Nadir. Through marriage, she was also a part of the Banu Qurayza, another local Jewish tribe. During the siege of Banu Qurayza in 627, she was widowed and taken captive by the early Muslims and subsequently became a concubine and according to some also a wife of Muhammad. Their relationship produced no children and in 631 she passed on while in her home city of Medina. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rayhana bint Zayd is the 1,392nd most popular politician (up from 2,891st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 109th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Rayhana bint Zayd was a woman of the Banu al-Nadir tribe who was captured by the Muslim army during the Battle of Khaybar. She was taken as a slave and eventually became Muhammad's concubine. After Muhammad's death, she married Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 1,392 out of 19,576. Before her are Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Christian V of Denmark, Michael VII Doukas, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Jean Monnet, and Charles Taylor. After her are Millard Fillmore, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Ghazan, and Otto of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 7. Before her are Pope Eugene I, Abu Hurairah, Jordanes, Zainab bint Muhammad, Pope Vitalian, and Pope John IV. After her are Samo, Bahira, Musaylimah, Pope Severinus, Abdullah ibn Masud, and Maria al-Qibtiyya. Among people deceased in 631, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 1. After her are Justus, Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy, Azarmidokht, Peroz II, Hormizd VI, Farrukh Hormizd, Khosrow IV, and Zacharias of Jerusalem.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 53 out of 354. Before her are Zubayr ibn al-Awam (594), Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (567), Amr ibn Hishām (570), Muhammad al-Baqir (677), Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (595), and Sawda bint Zamʿa (589). After her are Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah (582), Muhammad bin Qasim (695), Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad (603), Zaynab bint Ali (626), Hasan al-Basri (642), and Safiyya bint Huyayy (610).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 22. Before her are Khalid of Saudi Arabia (1912), Abul Kalam Azad (1888), Al-Walid I (668), Abdullah I of Jordan (1882), Zubayr ibn al-Awam (594), and Amr ibn Hishām (570). After her are Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah (582), Safiyya bint Huyayy (610), Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (674), Musaylimah (600), Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (661), and Maymunah bint al-Harith (594).

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