High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Safiyya bint Huyayy (Arabic: صفية بنت حيي ) (c. 610 - c. 670) was a Jewish woman captured from the Banu Nadir tribe at age 17, who became Muhammad's wife. She was, along with all other wives of Muhammad, titled Umm-ul-Mo'mineen or the "Mother of Believers."