Sirin (Islamic history)

Sîrîn bint Sham'ûn was an Egyptian Coptic Christian . She and her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya were sent to the Islamic prophet Muhammad as gifts from the Sassanid official Muqawqis in 628.^[1]Ibn Ishaq and Sirin was married with the poet Hassan ibn Thabit. Hassan and Sirin had a son, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hassan.^[2]

See also

• List of non-Arab Sahaba
• Sunni view of the Sahaba

Notes

1. Ibn Ishaq, they embraced Islam and became good Muslims Mohammed married Maria al-Qibtiyya in 628.
2. Tabari, p. 131.

References

• Tabari (1997). Vol. 8 of the Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk. State University of New York Press.