Hazrat Atika bint Zayd

Three Great Husbands

Atika bint Zayd was a cousin of Umar رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Umar ibn al-Khattabرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُSecond Caliph; al-Farooq, who expanded the Islamic stateKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · Muhajirun. Her first husband was Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Abdullah ibn Abi Bakrرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُEldest son of Abu Bakr; intelligence runner of the HijraMuhajirun, who loved her so deeply that he gave her an orchard on the condition she not marry again after him. When he died of his Ta’if wound, Ali رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Ali ibn Abi Talibرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُFourth Caliph; cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ﷺKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · People of Badr ruled she could remarry only if she returned the orchard — and Umar رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Umar ibn al-Khattabرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُSecond Caliph; al-Farooq, who expanded the Islamic stateKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · Muhajirun married her. 1 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 2 · pp. 708–709 — Kandhlawi — Abdullah's orchard; Ali's ruling; Umar marries Atika. At her walima, Ali رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Ali ibn Abi Talibرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُFourth Caliph; cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ﷺKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · People of Badr playfully recited her mourning couplet for Abdullah رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Abdullah ibn Abi Bakrرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُEldest son of Abu Bakr; intelligence runner of the HijraMuhajirun aloud, and she wept; Umar رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Umar ibn al-Khattabرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُSecond Caliph; al-Farooq, who expanded the Islamic stateKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · Muhajirun gently rebuked Ali رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Ali ibn Abi Talibرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُFourth Caliph; cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ﷺKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · People of Badr for the kindness given roughly. After Umar رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Umar ibn al-Khattabرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُSecond Caliph; al-Farooq, who expanded the Islamic stateKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · Muhajirun’s murder, az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُHazrat Az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwamرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُThe Disciple (Hawari) of the Prophet ﷺ; one of the ten promised ParadiseAshara Mubashara · Muhajirun · People of Badr married her. 2 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 2 · pp. 709 — Kandhlawi — Ali's recitation at the walima; Atika's tears; she later marries az-Zubayr.

Times Have Changed

Even under her later husbands she did not give up attending the mosque, citing the Prophet’s ﷺ word that women were not to be barred from it. Only when one of az-Zubayr’s ploys to dissuade her — teasing her in the dark on her way home — at last shook her, did she say: “Times have changed,” and stay home. 3 Stories of the Sahabah · pp. 200–201 — Zakariyya Kandhlawi — Atika continues to attend the mosque; the night-time teasing; 'Times have changed.'