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After killing her husband, during the Muslim war with Mecca, Muhammad married Hafsa bint Umar when she was 20 (he was 56). Similarly, after she was widowed at the battle of Badr, Muhammed married Zaynab bint Khuzayma.
When Abu Salamah died in battle, Muhammad married his widow, Umm Salama Hin bitn Abi Umayya. In 626 Raihanah bint Zaid was among those enslaved after the defeat of the Banu Quarayza tribe, and she became Muhammad’s concubine or wife.
Later, Muhammad married his cousin, Zaynab bint Jahsh, after a lot of conflict related to her marriage and divorce with another man. Muhammad decided in favor of this marriage to break the taboo against incestuous marriages, by informing everyone the Qur’an indicated this marriage was a duty imposed on him by God.
After he took captives from a skirmish with the Banu Mustaliq, he married one named Juwayriya bint al-Harith, which led to his new kinsmen being released from enslavement. Then he signed a peace treaty with his Meccan enemies, the Quraysh, and soon thereafter married the daughter of their leader, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, all for reconciling with his opponents of course.
Muhammad sent a proposal for marriage to Ramlah bint Abi-Sufyan when he learned her husband had died. Then in 629, after the Battle of Khaybar, Muhammad freed Safiyya bint Huyayy, a noblewoman of the defeated Jewish tribe Banu Nadir, and proposed marriage. She accepted, so he married her as part of reconciliation with the Jewish tribe and a gesture of goodwill.
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