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Rayhana bint Zayd

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Rayhana bint Zayd (Arabic: ريحانة بنت زيد, romanized: Rayḥāna bint Zayd; died c. 631 CE) was a Jewish convert to Islam from the Banu Nadir. Through marriage, she was also a part of the Banu Qurayza, another local Jewish tribe. During the siege of Banu Qurayza in 627, she was widowed and taken captive by the early Muslims and subsequently became a concubine and according to some also a wife of Muhammad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rayhana bint Zayd has received more than 571,858 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Rayhana bint Zayd is the 2,891st most popular politician (down from 2,666th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia and the 33rd most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Rayhana bint Zayd was a woman of the Banu al-Nadir tribe who was captured by the Muslim army during the Battle of Khaybar. She was taken as a slave and eventually became Muhammad's concubine. After Muhammad's death, she married Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 2,891 out of 19,576. Before her are Ptolemy of Mauretania, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Gustav Radbruch, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Mentuhotep III, and John I Albert. After her are Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Ashraf Ghani, Violant of Hungary, Wilhelm Cuno, Wilhelm Miklas, and Leonidas II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 20. Before her are Muadh ibn Jabal, Abu Dhar al-Ghifari, Pope Theodore I, Bahram Chobin, Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, and Pope Severinus. After her are Ubayy ibn Ka'b, Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy, Shahrbaraz, Bayan I, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, and Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman. Among people deceased in 631, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 1. After her are Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy, Azarmidokht, Justus, Peroz II, Hormizd VI, Khosrow IV, Farrukh Hormizd, and Zacharias of Jerusalem.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 109 out of 354. Before her are Abdullah ibn Salam (550), Adnan Khashoggi (1935), Abul Kalam Azad (1888), Jabir ibn Abd Allah (607), Abdallah ibn Sa'd (650), and Jamal Khashoggi (1958). After her are Fatimah bint Asad (555), Ali of Hejaz (1879), Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (1910), Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1928), Ubayy ibn Ka'b (600), and Ghazi of Iraq (1912).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Rayhana bint Zayd ranks 33. Before her are Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (661), Muhammad bin Saud (1710), Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (576), Asmā' bint Abi Bakr (595), Al-Wathiq (812), and Abul Kalam Azad (1888). After her are Ali of Hejaz (1879), Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (1910), Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1928), Ghazi of Iraq (1912), Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy (600), and Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (1933).

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