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Lubabah al-Sughra

لُبَابَةُ الصُّغْرَى

Lubābah al-Ṣughrā

Biography

Lubābah al-Ṣughrā ("Lubābah the younger," to distinguish her from her older sister Umm al-Faḍl, whose given name was also Lubābah) was one of five daughters of the same mother as Zaynab bint Khuzaymah, Maymūnah bint al-Ḥārith, and Umm al-Faḍl. She married al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah, chieftain of Banū Makhzūm, and became the mother of Khālid ibn al-Walīd.

Significance

Mother of Khalid ibn al-Walid; part of a remarkable family of sisters whose marriages connected them across Quraysh's leading families and, through her sister Maymunah, to the Prophet's (ﷺ) own household

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