Which Daughter...? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fatima

Sunnis accept Zainab, Ruqayyah, Umme Kulsoom, and Fatima as daughters of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Shi'a Islam believes Fatima's sisters were from Khadija's earlier marriages. Fatima is considered to be even holier than Mary, since she carried on the Prophet's legacy by having the only children that survived.

Answer: Zainab

According to Sunni Islam, Zainab was born when the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was thirty. Ruqayyah was born three years later. Umme Kulsoom and Fatima were also born a couple of years before the Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) call to prophethood, or when he was forty.

Answer: both of these

Ruqayyah and Umm Kulthum were married to Utba and Utaiba, sons of Abu Lahab. Their marriages took place before the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) declared his prophethood. However, when he did, Abu Lahab was one of those who rejected the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and persecuted him. He ordered his sons to divorce their wives or he would boycott them. Both daughters later remarried Muslims.

Answer: Fatima

Experts disagree over the exact year of Fatima's marriage. Her age varies, from the beginning of puberty to eighteen. Some sources say Ali was shy and hesitant to approach the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) at first, but he soon gained confidence.

Answer: Ruqayyah

Around the Battle of Badr, Ruqayyah fell ill suffering from a skin disease. Her husband, Uthman, had to stay home to tend to his ailing wife. The day the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) received the joyous news of his victory at Badr, he also received the news of his daughter's death. He was not able to attend her funeral, but he did visit her grave later on.

Answer: All of these

A very affluent widow, Khadija hired men to take care of her commercial status. She hired the Prophet Muhammad, (PBUH) who had not received the call to prophethood yet, to be in charge of her business in Syria, and sent her servant Maysarah to accompany him.

This trade brought back exceedingly high profits and Maysarah returned with good word about the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). This led to Khadija asking the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to marry her, and he soon accepted even though he was 25 years old, and Khadija was 40. Khadija also gave birth to two sons, Qasim and Abdullah, who died in infancy.

Answer: Zainab

She was married to Abul Aas who sided with the pagans in the Battle of Badr. He was captured, and only let go because Zainab paid the ransom of a necklace that belonged to Khadija that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) desired. She also had to immigrate to Medina. Abul Aas did got to Medina later on where he embraced on Islam and settled down with his wife.

Answer: None of these

Ruqayyah means "gentle", Fatima means "accustom", and Zainab means "an ornamented tree."

Answer: Actually, they all married

All of the Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) daughters did marry. Zainab stayed with her husband, Abul Aas, after he accepted Islam. Ruqayyah married Uthman and Umme Kulsoom also married Uthman after Ruqayyah's death. Fatima lived happily married with Ali ibn Talib.

Answer: Fatima

Fatima was still mourning her father's death for six months at the time of her own death around 633 C.E. She was around the young age of twenty-nine and had watched her parents and her sisters die. However, she had been already informed of her own death. Sources say that as the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) lay on his deathbed, he called Fatima over and caused her to weep by telling her he was dying.

Then he said she was to be the first person in the household to meet him in death, and this caused her to smile.