Maryam the Copt

Maryam the Copt
Maryam the Copt (d. 637) was the slave concubine of Prophet Muhammad and the mother of his son Ibrahim. She was sent as a gift by Cyrus (al-Muqawqas), the last Byzantine governor of Alexandria.

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