Barirah mawla Aisha was an Arab slave-girl who belonged to Utbah ibn Abu Lahab

Utbah ibn Abu Lahab

Son of Abu Lahab, he married Muhammad's second daughter Ruqayyah, but divorced her on his father's request.He had an Arab slave-girl named Barirah mawla Aisha whom he did not treat well.-See also:*Family tree of Utbah ibn Abu Lahab...

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She was forced to marry another slave whose names Mughith, something she did not approve of. She had a child with him.

Aisha

Aisha

Aisha bint Abu Bakr also transcribed as was Muhammad's favorite wife...

 took pity on her and bought her and set her free.

When the young woman was free and in control of her own affairs, she asked her husband for a divorce. Mughith used to follow her, weeping, whilst she rejected him.
Sahih Bukhari

Sahih Bukhari

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī , as it is commonly referred to, is one of the six canonical hadith collections of Islam. These prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Persian Muslim scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, after being transmitted orally for generations. Muslims view this as one of...

 quotes Ibn Abbas:
Muslims note here that when she asked if it was a commandment, obligatory to follow, Muhammad

Muhammad

Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...

 said that he simply was merely trying to intercede and bring about reconciliation if possible; he was not trying to force anybody to do something they did not wish to. See also Talaq

Divorce (Islamic)

In Islam there are separate rules for divorce for men and women under the terms of Islamic law . When a man has initiated a divorce the procedure is called . When a woman has initiated a divorce it is called khula ....

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