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Atika bint Zayd
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “companion of the islamic prophet and messenger muhammad and a wife of umar bin al-khattab”. Today it says “a 7th-century islamic scholar and poet”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Female Companion of Muhammad”. It now reads “7th-century Islamic scholar and poet”.
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Atika bint Zayd al-Adawiyya ( Arabic : عاتكة بنت زيد , romanized : ʿĀtika bint Zayd ) was a woman in 7th century Arabia who was an Islamic scholar and poet. She was a disciple ( Sahaba ) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . She was one of the wives of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab , the second Caliph . She was a poet who is notable for having married three Muslim men who died martyrs ( shaheed ).
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “companion of the islamic prophet and messenger muhammad and a wife of umar bin al-khattab”. Today it says “a 7th-century islamic scholar and poet”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Female Companion of Muhammad”. It now reads “7th-century Islamic scholar and poet”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
companion of the islamic prophet and messenger muhammad and a wife of umar bin al-khattab
Now
a 7th-century islamic scholar and poet
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