Their stay in Abyssinia did not last long, as they soon heard news that the Meccans had ceased their hostilities to Islam. Encyclopaedia of Islam Online. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Ruqayyah bint Muhammad (Arabic: رقية بنت النبي محمد) was the daughter of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad and Khadija. Some sources have reported that she was first married to His children born of Khadīja are four daughters; there is no difference of opinion about that. In P.J. Due to the Meccan oppression of early Muslim converts, a small group of Muslims (said to be just 11 men and 4 women) chose to migrate to Abyssinia in 613 AD. al-Istī`āb fī Ma`rifat al-Aşĥāb (Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr, The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions) vol.1 pp.50Ordoni, Abu Muhammad; Muhammad Kazim Qazwini (1992), Vacca, V. "Fāṭima". Brill Academic Publishers. She died in Medina in 2 AH (624 CE), at the same time as the Battle of Badr. Ruqayyah and Uthman returned to Mecca, but there they found that the news was false, and that the Meccans had actually intensified their campaign against the Muslims.
Many Muslims chose to stay in Abyssinia and live there until they received word to emigrate to Medina directly. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Upon her return, she learned that her mother Her grief over the loss of her mother and son was compounded by an illness (said to be There is dispute about her marriage. Heinrichs. She is described as \"ذات الهجرتين\" meaning \"she who emigrated twice\", since she participated in both the Migration to Abyssinia and the Migration to Medina. ISSN 1573-3912.Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong She married Utbah ibn Abu Lahab, but he divorced her after her conversion to Islam, after which she married Uthman ibn Affan. However, a few Muslims chose to return to Mecca, and Ruqayyah was amongst them. Amongst this first batch was both Ruqayyah and her husband Uthman. Ruqayyah and Uthman joined a second migration to Abyssinia in 615 AD, with around one hundred other Muslims.