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Sirin bint Shamun

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Sîrîn bint Sham'ûn was an Egyptian Coptic Christian concubine, sent with her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya as gifts to the Islamic prophet Muhammad from the Sassanid official Muqawqis in 628.[1]

Both sisters converted to Islam through the teachings of Hatib ibn Abi Balta'ah, who had been sent as a messenger to the Potiphar of Egypt.

Sirin was married to the poet Hassan ibn Thabit, and bore a son, Abdurahman ibn Hassan.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ Ibn Ishaq
  2. ^ Tabari, p. 131.

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