Muhammad
Muhammad's life is traditionally defined into two periods: pre-hijra (emigration) in Mecca (from 570 to 622), and post-hijra in Medina (from 622 until 632). Muhammad is said to have had thirteen wives in total (although two have ambiguous accounts, Rayhana bint Zayd and Maria al-Qibtiyya, as wife or concubine.) Eleven of the thirteen marriages occurred after the migration to Medina.
Zubayr ibn al-Awam
Al-Zubayr married eight times and had twenty children.Al-Zubayr's wives complained that he had "some harshness towards women". Asma wanted a divorce after he tied her and her (unnamed) co-wife together by their hair and beat both of them "severely". Abu Bakr advised his daughter that Al-Zubayr was a "righteous" man, and therefore she should not leave him, or remarry after his death, because her reward for her patience would be to be reunited with him in Paradise. Asma also recalled: "Whenever he reprimanded one of us, he would break off a branch from the wooden clothes hangers and beat her with it until he broke it over her." Umm Kulthum asked him directly for a divorce, and when he refused, she tricked him into it by pestering him while he was busy with the ritual washing for prayer. Al-Zubayr complained, "She tricked me, may Allah trick her!" Muhammad advised him to propose to her again, but Al-Zubayr realized that, "She will never come back to me." Atiqa only agreed to marry him on condition that he would never beat her.