# Why did only Mariya bear the Prophet a child in Medina?

*Why Mariya conceived: Yasmin Amin's dietary theory*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/35/
- Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:32:34–2:35:13)
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**Topics:** The wives of the Prophet

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth shares Yasmin Amin's theory that Mariya conceived because, living outside Medina, she did not follow the other wives' ascetic diet, and says he is still researching it.

## Longer summary

After joking about Wahhabi visitors in the chat, Mufti Abu Layth picks up a comment that Mariya was a Coptic Egyptian and shares a theory he is still researching from Yasmin Amin, granddaughter of the historian Ahmad Amin. Her suggestion, he says, is that the ascetic diet of the Prophet's wives would not result in pregnancies, while Mariya, a foreigner whom the other wives disliked, lived about three kilometres from Medina in the Awali and did not follow that diet, which aided her pregnancy. He says her book is due next month and that the perspective is intriguing but needs more research.

## Sources and names cited

- Mariya al-Qibtiyya
- Yasmin Amin
- Ahmad Amin
- zuhd

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:32:34–2:35:13)

[2:31:54] because it kind of really just uh buried this whole if story because it is in our sunni books by the way it's in sahih muslim that oh she was accused of having an affair but they don't even mention her name they try and put it off as she was a slave of the prophet they say a slave woman of the prophet um but it was you know that's not true and she was a wife and but yeah so that's an interesting thing i thought i'd just share that with you right guys we're going to start to wrap up uh you're not muslim

[2:32:34] wallahi village to lahi i think you need to go back to your village uh hussain salafi [Laughter] all right the wobblers are here right so cool right so speaking of wobblers people yeah somebody said mario was a coptic egyptian she was there's an interesting theory as well i'm still researching that

[2:33:14] and this was more speaking with us yes mean amin who is the granddaughter of the great egyptian historian ahmed amin right those of you that are familiar with him so she had mentioned to me and and it's got me kind of thinking i'm still researching it though but her suggestion is that it was the zohar lifestyle you know the zohar the kind of very um ascetic food dietary not restrictions but but but ro the kind of dietary lifestyle the ascetic dietary

[2:33:53] lifestyle that the wives of the prophet had that would not then result in pregnancies and this was something she she has written about i think her books to be released next month but it's quite okay it's intriguing it's quite interesting and because maria when she came she was a coptic she came she embraces islam marries the prophet she then doesn't the wives don't like her uh one she's a foreigner and things like this so the prophet has a settlement for her outside of medina so she lives about three kilometers from madina

[2:34:33] in the awali so because of that her dietary thing is completely different she doesn't adhere to this ascetic kind of dietary lifestyle and that then aids in the pregnancy as well so that's something ustada yes mean i mean had written it's quite intriguing it's interesting i thought hmm that's uh um that's a perspective i've got to still research more about it all right so people moving on right we've got to move on people speaking of uh we had somebody there saying uh

[2:35:12] uh wahhabi wobbler [Laughter] right so speaking of wobblers right right so those of you that are not familiar uh there was this huge kind of meltdown that ganguteli has had where

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KWmtt2TQAO0/s/35. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/35/

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