Muhammad's wives
Muhammad was monogamous for 25 years. After his first wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid died, he proceeded to marry the wives listed below, and most of them were widows. Muhammad's life is traditionally delineated as two epochs: pre-hijra (emigration) in Mecca, a city in western Arabia, from the year 570 to 622, and post-hijra in Medina, from 622 until his death in 632. All but two of his marriages were contracted after the Hijra (migration to Medina). Of Muhammad's thirteen wives, at least two, Rayhana bint Zayd and Maria al-Qibtiyya, were referred to simply as concubines; however, there is debate among Muslims as to whether these two officially became his wives. Of his thirteen wives, only two bore him children, a fact which has been described as "curious" by Cornell University Professor of Near Eastern Studies David S. Powers.
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.