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Name Atika
Gender Feminine
Usage Arabic, Indonesian, Bengali, Malay
Scripts عاتكة(Arabic) আতিকা(Bengali) اتيكه(Malay Jawi)
Other Forms FormsʿĀtika, Atikah, Atieka, Atiekah
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Meaning & History
From Arabic عَاتِك (ʿātik) meaning "clean, pure, limpid". This name should not be confused or conflated with Atiqa, which is a completely unrelated name.This name was borne by three women important to the early history of Islam, including two relatives of the Prophet Muhammad:
1. ʿĀtika bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāšim was a full sister of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad's father, making this ʿĀtika an aunt of the Prophet. She was the mother of three children, all cousins of the Prophet: Abdullah (who was undoubtedly named for his uncle), Zuhayr, and Qurayba "the elder" (so-called to differentiate her from her half-sister, below).
2. ʿĀtika bint ʾĀmir Rabīʿah, whose daughter Umm Salama Hind bint ʾAbī ʾUmayya ibn al-Mughīra (b. c. 580 or 596 – d. 680 or 682/83) married Muḥammad in 625, making this ʿĀtika the Prophet's mother-in-law. ʾUmm Salama herself is honoured by the title ʾUmm al-Muʾminīn ("Mother of the Believers") for her status as a preeminently important wife of the Prophet, with Shīʿa Muslims placing her second only to his first wife Ḵadīja bint Ḵuwaylid (or Khadijah); Sunni Muslims accredit her with narrating 378 ʾaḥādīṯ, more than any other wife except for his third wife and fellow ʾUmm al-Muʾminīn ʿĀʾiša bint ʾAbī Bakr (or Aisha). Besides ʾUmm Salama, this ʿĀtika was also the mother of three sons: Hišām (or Hisham), Mas'ud, and al-Muhajir.
3. ʿĀtika bint ʾUṭbaʿ ibn Rabīʿah, who was was the mother of only one daughter: Qurayba "the younger" (to differentiate her from her half-sister, above). This younger Qurayba was successively the wife of 1. ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (a father-in-law of the Prophet via his daughter Ḥafṣa "the elder", which later helped legitimize his becoming the second Rāšidūn Caliph), 2. Muʿāwiya ibn ʾAbī Sufyān (the founder and first Caliph of the ʾUmayyad dynasty), and 3. ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʾAbī Bakr (a brother-in-law of the Prophet via his sister ʿĀʾiša). Qurayba herself had three daughters (ʾUmm Hakim "the elder", ʾUmm Sa'id, and ʾUmm Habib) by her second marriage and five children by her third marriage (ʿAbdullāh, Muḥammad, ʾUmm Ḥakīm "the younger", Asma, and Ḥafṣa "the younger"); her first marriage was childless.These three women were all married to a common husband, the father of all of their children: ʾAbu ʾUmayya Suhayl Zād ar-Rākib ibn al-Mughīra, who was thus both an uncle-in-law and a father-in-law (via ʾUmm Salama) of the Prophet.
1. ʿĀtika bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāšim was a full sister of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad's father, making this ʿĀtika an aunt of the Prophet. She was the mother of three children, all cousins of the Prophet: Abdullah (who was undoubtedly named for his uncle), Zuhayr, and Qurayba "the elder" (so-called to differentiate her from her half-sister, below).
2. ʿĀtika bint ʾĀmir Rabīʿah, whose daughter Umm Salama Hind bint ʾAbī ʾUmayya ibn al-Mughīra (b. c. 580 or 596 – d. 680 or 682/83) married Muḥammad in 625, making this ʿĀtika the Prophet's mother-in-law. ʾUmm Salama herself is honoured by the title ʾUmm al-Muʾminīn ("Mother of the Believers") for her status as a preeminently important wife of the Prophet, with Shīʿa Muslims placing her second only to his first wife Ḵadīja bint Ḵuwaylid (or Khadijah); Sunni Muslims accredit her with narrating 378 ʾaḥādīṯ, more than any other wife except for his third wife and fellow ʾUmm al-Muʾminīn ʿĀʾiša bint ʾAbī Bakr (or Aisha). Besides ʾUmm Salama, this ʿĀtika was also the mother of three sons: Hišām (or Hisham), Mas'ud, and al-Muhajir.
3. ʿĀtika bint ʾUṭbaʿ ibn Rabīʿah, who was was the mother of only one daughter: Qurayba "the younger" (to differentiate her from her half-sister, above). This younger Qurayba was successively the wife of 1. ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (a father-in-law of the Prophet via his daughter Ḥafṣa "the elder", which later helped legitimize his becoming the second Rāšidūn Caliph), 2. Muʿāwiya ibn ʾAbī Sufyān (the founder and first Caliph of the ʾUmayyad dynasty), and 3. ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʾAbī Bakr (a brother-in-law of the Prophet via his sister ʿĀʾiša). Qurayba herself had three daughters (ʾUmm Hakim "the elder", ʾUmm Sa'id, and ʾUmm Habib) by her second marriage and five children by her third marriage (ʿAbdullāh, Muḥammad, ʾUmm Ḥakīm "the younger", Asma, and Ḥafṣa "the younger"); her first marriage was childless.These three women were all married to a common husband, the father of all of their children: ʾAbu ʾUmayya Suhayl Zād ar-Rākib ibn al-Mughīra, who was thus both an uncle-in-law and a father-in-law (via ʾUmm Salama) of the Prophet.