Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar
حفصة بنت عمر
- Dates
- 605–665 CE / 18 BH–45 AH
- Relation to the Prophet ﷺ
- Wife of the Prophet ﷺ; daughter of ʿUmar
The wife to whom the first collected muṣḥaf of the Qurʾan was entrusted after Abū Bakr's death.
Life
Ḥafṣah was widowed young when her first husband died of wounds sustained at Badr. The Prophet ﷺ married her — in part, the scholars say, to honor ʿUmar and his house. She was literate, which was rare, and she memorised the whole Qurʾan.
When Abū Bakr commissioned the first complete written muṣḥaf, it was stored in Ḥafṣah's house after his death. When ʿUthmān later produced the canonical standard, he borrowed Ḥafṣah's copy to verify against. She died in Madinah around 665 CE.
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