Hafsa bint Omar

Hafsa bint `Omar Ben Al-Khattâb or Hafsa (??? - 667) was the fourth wife of Mahomet. She was the girl of the second Caliph Omar.

Biography

Hafsa was born with Mecque before the Mahomet prophet. it was one of the first to be converted with Islam and belonged to the emigrants towards Médine in company its first husband (622). Her husband died at the time of the Bataille of Badr (625). After having consumed the marriage with `Aïcha Mahomet takes this widow like fourth wife. The relations between the husbands would not have been very good. `Omar would have said to him: “Hafsa, I intended to say that you cause some problems with the messenger of God. You must know that he does not like you and that if I had not been your father he would have repudiated you”. By hearing that she cried bitterly.

Hafsa is the indiscreet one indicated in these two verses, the implied second nobody is `Aicha.

* When he had informed it of his indiscretion, she says: “Which thus put to you with the current?” He answered: “That which knows all and which is quite informed me of warned”.

* If both you return to God, it is that your hearts were inclined. But if you support yourselves mutually against the prophet, will know that God is his Master and that it has as a Gabriel support, any man right among the believers and even the angels.

Omar, fearing that the words of Mahomet are not entirely forgotten when death will have taken all those which had heard them, encouraged Abû Bakr to consider their safeguarding in written form. The account, when it was completed, was recorded by Hafsa. He was considered with large respect by all the Moslems, even if he did not have any canonical authority, and provides the majority of the material with which the Coran was written. When the official version was finished, all the copies of the account of Hafsa were destroyed in order to avoid any argument and division. Certain fragments would have escaped with the destruction and were found in 1972 at the time of renovation works of the large mosque of Sanaʿa (Yemen).

Hafsa died in Médine in (667). It is buried there.

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