It is narrated from Abd al-Wahid bin Abi Awn al-Dawsi that he said: Al-Nu'man bin Abi al-Jawn al-Kindi came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He and the people of his family lived in the part of Najd adjoining al-Sharabbah. He accepted Islam and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Shall I not marry you to a most beautiful widow among the Arabs? She was married to her paternal cousin, who died, and now she is a widow and greatly desires to be married to you." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married her for a dowry (mahr) of twelve uqiyah and a nash (half an uqiyah). He said: "O Messenger of Allah! Do not keep her dowry low." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have not fixed the dowry of any of my wives higher than this, nor have I fixed the dowry of any of my daughters higher than this." Al-Nu'man said: "In following you there is consolation." Then he said: "O Messenger of Allah! Send one of your messengers to bring her to you. I am going with your messenger and will send your family along with him." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Sayyiduna Abu Usayd al-Sa'idi (may Allah be pleased with him) with him. When the two of them arrived there, the woman was in her house, and she gave them permission to enter. Sayyiduna Abu Usayd said: "Men who are strangers do not look upon the wives of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." This was after the commands of the veil (hijab) had been revealed. The woman sent word asking (then what should I do?), and he said: "Veil yourself; there must be a screen between you and the men with whom you speak, except those who are your mahram." So she did so. Abu Usayd says: I stayed there three days, then I seated her in a litter on a camel and brought her to Madinah, and I lodged her among Banu Sa'idah. The women of the neighbourhood came to her, welcomed her and congratulated her, and when they left they began speaking of her beauty. This spread throughout Madinah and her arrival became the talk of the town. Sayyiduna Abu Usayd al-Sa'idi says: I returned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who was at that time among Banu Amr bin Awf, and I informed him. Then, when the women learned of her beauty, a woman came to her (out of envy or scheming) and said: "You are from a royal family. If you want your standing with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to be raised, then when he comes near you, seek refuge in Allah from him. In this way your worth and standing with him will increase, and he will regard you with greater desire."

It is narrated from Ibn Abi Awn that he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married the woman of the tribe of Kindah in Rabi' al-Awwal of the year 9 AH.

Hisham bin Urwah narrates from his father that al-Walid bin Abd al-Malik wrote to him asking: Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) marry the sister of al-Ash'ath bin Qays? He replied: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) never married her, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not marry any Kindi woman except that sister of Banu al-Jawn. He (peace and blessings be upon him) became her husband (that is, he contracted the marriage), but when she was brought and reached Madinah, he (peace and blessings be upon him) looked at her and divorced her, and did not consummate the marriage with her.

Hamzah bin Abi Usayd al-Sa'idi narrates from his father, who was a Companion who fought at Badr, that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married Asma' bint al-Nu'man al-Jawniyyah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me, and I brought her. Sayyidah Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) said to Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): "You apply henna to her and I will comb her hair." They did so. Then one of them said to her: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) likes it when a woman, as he comes in to her, says: 'I seek refuge in Allah from you.'" So when he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to her, closed the door and let down the curtain, and then extended his hand (peace and blessings be upon him) towards her, she said: "I seek refuge in Allah from you." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his sleeve over his face, covering himself, and said three times: "'Udhti ma'adhan (You have sought refuge in a mighty place of refuge)." Abu Usayd says: Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and said to me: "O Abu Usayd! Take her back to her family and give her two linen garments." After that the woman used to say: "Call me the Shaqiyyah (the wretched one)." Hisham bin Muhammad says that Zuhayr bin Mu'awiyah al-Ju'fi told him that she died of this very grief.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: Al-Muhajir bin Abi Umayyah (later) married Asma' bint al-Nu'man, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wanted to punish her. But Asma' said: "By Allah! The command of the veil (hijab) was never applied to me, nor was I ever given the name Mother of the Believers." So Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) refrained from her.

It is narrated from Abu Ubaydah Ma'mar bin al-Muthanna that when the delegation of the tribe of Kindah came, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married Qutaylah bint Qays, the sister of al-Ash'ath bin Qays, in the year 10 AH. Then on the fifteenth of Safar he (peace and blessings be upon him) fell ill, and on Monday the second of Rabi' al-Awwal he (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away. By that time she had not reached him (peace and blessings be upon him), nor had he (peace and blessings be upon him) consummated the marriage with her. Some have put the time of this marriage at two months before his (peace and blessings be upon him) passing, while others claim that he (peace and blessings be upon him) married her during his illness. According to some, he (peace and blessings be upon him) left an instruction that Qutaylah be given a choice: if she wished, she would take on the veil and become forbidden to the believers, and if she wished, she could marry whomever she wanted. She chose marriage, and Ikrimah bin Abi Jahl married her in Hadramawt. When this news reached Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: "I have a firm intention to set fire to the two of them." But Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "She is not one of the Mothers of the Believers; the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not consummate the marriage with her, nor was the command of the veil applied to her." Some also hold that she had apostatised.

It is narrated from Imam al-Zuhri that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took Sayyidah Mariyah al-Qibtiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) as a concubine (surriyyah), and from her his (peace and blessings be upon him) son Ibrahim was born.

It is narrated from Mus'ab bin Abdullah al-Zubayri that he said: Then a child was born to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from Mariyah bint Sham'un. She is the one whom al-Muqawqis, the ruler of Alexandria, sent as a gift to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Along with her he also sent her sister Sirin and a servant named Ma'bur. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave Sirin as a gift to Hassan bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him). Al-Muqawqis was from the Copts, and they were Christians. Ibrahim, the son of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), was born to Sayyidah Mariyah (may Allah be pleased with her) in Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 8 AH, and Ibrahim (peace be upon him) passed away in Madinah at the age of eighteen months.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Bara' bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: When Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), passed away, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, there is a wet nurse for him in Paradise."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that Sayyidah Mariyah (may Allah be pleased with her) was given as a gift to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and with her was a paternal cousin of hers. He (peace and blessings be upon him) had relations with her once and she became pregnant, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) placed her apart, with her cousin. At this the people of slander and falsehood said that, out of longing for a child, he had claimed someone else's child as his own. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) says: Mariyah had little milk, so a milk-giving ewe was bought for her, and the child (Ibrahim) was nourished on its milk and became very healthy. One day he was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "How do you find this child?" I said (out of jealousy): Whoever is raised on sheep's milk, his flesh is bound to become good. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do you not see the resemblance?" Under the influence of jealousy I said that I saw no resemblance. Then what people were saying reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "Take this sword, and strike the neck of this cousin of Mariyah wherever you find him." Sayyiduna Ali reached there and found him in a garden, picking fruit from a date palm. When he saw Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) with a drawn sword, he trembled and his waist-cloth fell, and then it became known that he lacked male organs (he was majbub), and that Allah had not given him anything of what men have.