Maria al-Qibtiyya

Maria bint Shamʿūn, better known as Maria al-Qibtiyya, Maria Qubtiyya, or Maria the Copt, was an Egyptian who, along with her sister Sirin, were sent to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628 as a gift by Muqawqis, a Christian governor of Alexandria, Egypt during the territory's Persian occupation. She and her sister were slaves. She spent the rest of her life in Medina where she embraced Islam and lived with Muhammad when she bore a son, Ibrahim. The son would die as an infant and then she died almost five years later.