Family
Umar married a total of 9 women in his lifetime and had 14 children, 10 sons and 4 daughters.
The details are as follow:
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- Wife: Zaynab bint Mazh'un (at the time of Jahiliyyah )
- Son: Abdullah ibn Umar
- Son: Abdulrahman ibn 'Umar (The Older)
- Son: Abdulrahman ibn 'Umar
- Daughter: Hafsa bint Umar
- Wife: Umm Kulthum bint Jarwila Khuzima (divorced)
- Son: Ubaidullah ibn Umar
- Son: Zayd ibn 'Umar
- Wife: Quraybah bint Abi Umayyah al-Makhzumi (divorced, married by Abdulrehman ibn Abu Bakr)
- Wife: Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham (after her husband, a former ally of 'Umar and a companion Ikrimah ibn Abi-Jahl was killed in Battle of Yarmouk, later divorced but al-Madaini says he did not divorce her)
- Daughter: Fatima bint 'Umar
- Wife: Jamilah bint Ashim ibn Thabit ibn Abi al-Aqlah (from the tribe of Aws)
- Son: Asim ibn Umar
- Wife: Atikah bint Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nifayl (cousin of Umar and former wife of Abdullah ibn Abu Bakr married 'Umar in the year 12 AH and after 'Umar was murdered, she married az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam)
- Son: Iyaad ibn 'Umar
- Wife: Umm Kulthum bint 'Ali (the daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib).
- Son: Zayd ibn 'Umar, (famously known as Ibnul Khalifatayn; the son of the two Caliphs i.e Umar and Ali).
- Daughter: Ruqayyah bint 'Umar
- Wife: Luhyah (a woman from Yemen (Yaman) who's marital status with 'Umar is disputed, al-Waqidi said that she was Umm Walad, meaning a slave woman)
- Son: Abdulrahman ibn 'Umar (the youngest Abdulrehman while some say the middle Abdulrehman from Luhyah)
- Wife: Fukayhah (as Umm Walad)
- Daughter: Zaynab bint 'Umar (the smallest child of 'Umar from Fukayhah)
- Wife: Zaynab bint Mazh'un (at the time of Jahiliyyah )
Another son is, az-Zubayr ibn Bakkar, called Abu Shahmah, though from which wife is unknown.
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