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She was the daughter of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and Safiyyah bint Abi al-"As.
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Ramla bint Abi Sufyan
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The first Ummayad caliph, Muawiyah I, was Ramla"s half-brother, and Uthman ibn Affan was her maternal first cousin and paternal second cousin. Her first husband was Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh, a brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, whom Muhammad married in 627. His conversion led to their separation.
They all continued to live in Abyssinia until Ubayd-Allah"s death in 627.
"As he went to sit on the apostle’s carpet she folded it up so that he could not sit on lieutenant "My dear daughter," he said, "I hardly know if you think that the carpet is too good for me or that I am too good for the carpet!" She replied: "lieutenant is the apostle’s carpet and you are an unclean polytheist.
I do not want you to sit on the apostle’s carpet." "By God," he said, "since you left me you have gone to the bad."" The Hadith literature includes about sixty-five hadiths narrated by Ramla.
