Umm Kulthum al-Hashimiyya

Salaam,

GF Haddad wrote:

then `Umar could not have married Umm Kulthum the daughter of `Ali and Fatima -

Umar did all his best to force this marriage that in fact did not take place. He asked the hand of Um Kolthoom many times, and insisted. No marriage took place.

The marriage of `Umar with Umm Kulthum al-Hashimiyya (b. 6) the daughter of `Ali and Fatima most certainly took place. `Ali gave her away to `Umar upon her request although he was afraid at first that `Umar might not accept her due to her youth. The dowry was 40,000 dirhams. She bore him Zayd al-Akbar, known as Ibn al-Khalifatayn (= "Son of the Two Caliphs i.e. `Umar and `Ali) who became renowned for his great beauty, and a daughter, Ruqayya. After `Umar died she remarried, upon `Ali's order, with `Awn ibn Ja`far ibn Abi Talib. When `Awn died `Ali remarried her with Muhammad ibn Ja`far then, when the latter also died, with `Abd Allah ibn Ja`far who survived her. Zayd died a young man, childless, from a stone throw in the time of Mu`awiya. Umm Kulthum died at the same time and either `Abd Allah ibn `Umar or Sa`id ibn al-`As ibn Sa`id [who had asked for Umm Kulthum's hand after `Umar died] prayed over the both of them, Allah have mercy on them!

Sources: Ibn Sa`d, Tabaqat (8:337-340=8:463-464); al-Siyar wal-Maghazi (p. 248); Tarikh al-Ya`qubi (2:260); Nasab Quraysh (p. 352); al-Tabari, Tarikh (4:199 and 5:335); Ibn `Abd al-Barr, al-Isti`ab (4:490-491); al-Nawawi, Tahdhib al-Asma' wa al-Lughat (2:267 #1219); al-Dhahabi, Siyar A`lam al-Nubala' (Dar al-Fikr ed. 5:22-24) and Tarikh al-Islam (4:58-59, 4:137-139, 4:227); Ibn Hajar, al-Isaba (4:492 #1481); Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghaba (7:387-388) and al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh (3:54, 4:12); etc.