Umm Kulthūm bint ʿUqba (Arabic: أُمُّ كُلثُوم بِنْتِ عُقبَة) (c. 610–654) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
[1] Born in Mecca, she was the daughter of Uqba ibn Abu Mu'ayt and Arwa bint Kurayz;[1] hence Caliph Uthman was her uterine half-brother.
[3] After the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah in 628, Umm Kulthum left Mecca for Medina in the company of a man from the Khuza'a tribe.
Umm Kulthum pleaded that "women are weak" and that she might not have the strength to remain firm in her faith if she had to live among polytheists.
But give them (disbelievers) that which they have spent (on their dower).After this prophecy, he pointed out that the word in the treaty for "escaped people" was masculine, so it did not apply to women.
[4] Umm Kulthum was asked whether she had come to Medina "for love of Allah and his Apostle and Islam" or whether she was seeking or escaping a husband or hoping to make money.
After she had passed the test, Muhammad told her brothers: "Allah has broken the treaty regarding women by what you know, so leave.