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Maymuna bint al-Harith married the Prophet Muhammad when Muhammad was sixty years old and she was thirty six. Zaynab bint Khuzayma, the wife of Muhammad who had died earlier, was her half-sister. Her other half-sisters, Asma bint Umays and Salma bint Umays, latter married Abu Bakr and Hamza. Her full sisters were Lubaba, Asma and Izza.
She asked Muhammad to marry her, and he accepted the offer. She lived with Muhammad for only three years until his death. She died at the age of eighty.
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