Who is virgin wife of prophet muhammed?

Answer 1

Answer 1

The only virgin wife of the prophet's wives was "Aesha Bent Abi-Bakr" may Alla be pleased with her.

Answer 2

Aisha boasted that she was Muhammad's only virgin wife, but in fact she was exaggerating in order to emphasise her own importance. She hoped people would not notice the following facts.

1. Muhammad had three concubines who would have come to him as virgins, but they were not technically "wives". One of them, Mariya the Copt, is famous for bearing Muhammad's youngest son, Ibrahim. Another was a Jewish girl named Tukana. The third was so non-famous that nobody remembers her name.

2. Muhammad married Mulayka bint Kaab and Fatima bint Dahhak in 630, but he divorced both of them after only a few weeks. They were young women who had not been married before. Aisha probably felt they did not count as real wives because they were divorced.

3. At an unknown date Muhammad married a girl from Medina named Saba bint Asma. Her father made the negotiations, so it is implied that she was young and never-married. Saba died just before the wedding day. Muhammad also married a Christian princess named Khawla bint Hudhayl. Not much is known about her, but she was probably a young woman who had not been married. She died on the way to the wedding. Muhammad then married her aunt, Sharaf bint Khalifa. Given that Sharaf was probably older than Khawla, she may have been a widow - but this is not proved. She too died before wedding. Since these marriages were never consummated, it is understandable that Aisha would not count them as "real" marriages; but they were fully valid by Arab law.

4. Finally, in April 632 Muhammad legally married a Yemenite princess named Qutayla bint Qays. She was a Jewish princess who had not been married before, so we can be quite certain she was a virgin. However, it took several weeks to travel to and from East Yemen. While Qutayla was still on the way to her wedding, she heard that the elderly Muhammad had already died. So she was the only one of Muhammad's wives who was still a virgin after he had died. (However, she remarried - twice.)

5. Muhammad also said that in the Afterlife one of his heavenly wives would be the Virgin Mary. Obviously this kind of claim can never be proved or disproved.

So Aisha was the only "real" wife who was legally married to Muhammad as a virgin, had the marriage consummated, and remained married to him until the day he died. But it does seem that there are a lot of other virgins on the edges of this picture!