Who Was Alive

Ruqayya bint Muhammad

Born AD 598–601 · died 14 March AD 624
Also known as Rukaiya

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When Ruqayya bint Muhammad died, Muhammad was 52, Ali was 24, Aisha was 9 or 10, Mu'awiya I was 20 or 21 and Pope Martin I was 25.

Born during Ruqayya bint Muhammad’s lifetime: Aisha, Fatima, Mu'awiya I, Pope Leo II, Xuanzang, Wu Zetian, Hafsa bint Umar and Ibn Abbas.

Not quite contemporaries: Husayn ibn Ali was born about 2 years after Ruqayya bint Muhammad died, Pope Benedict II was born about 11 years after Ruqayya bint Muhammad died, Pope Pelagius II died about 8 years before Ruqayya bint Muhammad was born and Hasan ibn Ali was born about a year after Ruqayya bint Muhammad died.

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The 87 best-known contemporaries

87 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ruqayya bint Muhammad. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 613.

  1. Muhammad AD 571 – AD 632
  2. Umar c. AD 586 – AD 644
  3. Ali AD 599 – AD 661
  4. Abu Bakr c. AD 573 – AD 634
  5. Brahmagupta c. AD 598 – c. AD 670
  6. Pope Gregory I c. AD 541 – AD 604
  7. Uthman c. AD 575 – AD 656
  8. Aisha AD 614 – c. AD 678
  9. Fatima c. AD 610 – AD 632
  10. Mu'awiya I AD 603 – AD 680
  11. Heraclius c. AD 575 – AD 641
  12. Isidore of Seville c. AD 560 – AD 636
  13. Pope Honorius I c. AD 585 – AD 638
  14. Pope Martin I AD 598 – AD 655
  15. Pope Leo II AD 611 – AD 683
  16. Khalid ibn al-Walid AD 586 – AD 642
  17. Pope John IV c. AD 600 – AD 642
  18. Xuanzang AD 602 – AD 664
  19. Pope Adeodatus I AD 570 – AD 618
  20. Pope Agatho AD 574 – AD 681
  21. Pope Vitalian c. AD 600 – AD 672
  22. Pope Boniface IV c. AD 550 – AD 615
  23. Wu Zetian AD 624 – AD 705
  24. Pope Sabinian c. AD 530 – AD 606
  25. Pope Boniface III c. AD 540 – AD 607
  26. Maurice AD 539 – AD 602
  27. Bilal ibn Rabah AD 581 – c. AD 642
  28. Khosrow II AD 570 – AD 628
  29. Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib c. AD 568 – AD 653
  30. Phocas AD 547 – AD 610
  31. Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib c. AD 541 – AD 619
  32. Maximus the Confessor AD 579 – AD 662
  33. Hafsa bint Umar AD 604 – AD 665
  34. Ibn Abbas c. AD 619 – AD 688
  35. Amr ibn al-As AD 570 – AD 664
  36. Emperor Taizong of Tang AD 598 – AD 649
  37. Heraclius Constantine AD 612 – AD 641
  38. Marwan I AD 623 – AD 685
  39. Salman the Persian AD 568 – AD 657
  40. Chlothar II AD 584 – AD 629
  41. Zubayr ibn al-Awwam AD 594 – AD 656
  42. Emperor Gaozu of Tang AD 566 – AD 635
  43. Abu Sufyan c. AD 570 – c. AD 646
  44. Harsha AD 590 – AD 647
  45. Abu Hurayra AD 602 – AD 679
  46. Dagobert I c. AD 611 – AD 639
  47. Heraclonas AD 618 – AD 641
  48. Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah AD 583 – AD 639
  49. Zaynab bint Jahsh AD 592 – AD 642
  50. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas AD 595 – c. AD 675
  51. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib AD 568 – AD 625
  52. Bhartṛhari AD 570 – c. AD 651
  53. Umm Salama AD 596 – AD 681
  54. Sawdah bint Zam'ah AD 589 – AD 674
  55. Zaynab bint Khuzayma AD 595 – AD 625
  56. Talha ibn Ubayd Allah AD 595 – AD 656
  57. Penda of Mercia c. AD 606 – AD 655
  58. Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab c. AD 610 – AD 693
  59. Æthelberht of Kent AD 552 – AD 612
  60. John Climacus c. AD 579 – c. AD 649
  61. Umm Habiba c. AD 594 – AD 665
  62. Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud AD 594 – AD 653
  63. Columbanus c. AD 543 – AD 615
  64. Abu Lahab AD 549 – c. AD 625
  65. Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf c. AD 577 – c. AD 654
  66. Theophylact Simocatta AD 580 – AD 630
  67. Maymunah bint al-Harith c. AD 592 – AD 672
  68. Boran AD 590 – AD 632
  69. Safiyya bint Huyayy c. AD 610 – AD 670
  70. Juwayriya bint al-Harith AD 608 – AD 676
  71. Emperor Wen of Sui AD 541 – AD 604
  72. Empress Suiko AD 554 – AD 628
  73. Prince Shōtoku AD 574 – AD 622
  74. Theudebert II AD 585 – AD 612
  75. Theuderic II AD 587 – AD 613
  76. Empress Kōgyoku AD 594 – AD 661
  77. Venantius Fortunatus c. AD 534 – AD 609
  78. Theodelinda c. AD 570 – c. AD 628
  79. Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi AD 581 – AD 629
  80. Pepin of Landen c. AD 585 – AD 640
  81. Rayhana bint Zayd c. 590s – AD 631
  82. Sigebert II AD 602 – AD 613
  83. Anas ibn Malik AD 611 – AD 713
  84. Ammar ibn Yasir AD 570 – AD 657
  85. Zainab bint Muhammad c. AD 599 – c. AD 629
  86. Kubrat c. AD 595 – AD 665
  87. Ardashir III AD 621 – AD 630