The marriage Abu Lahab ordered ended

Before the mission began, marriage contracts had been concluded for Ruqayyah and her sister Umm Kulthum with Abu Lahab's two sons — an ordinary arrangement between two households of the same clan.

Once the message began and the Prophet's ﷺ own family accepted it, the arrangement stopped being ordinary. Abu Lahab, an uncle of the Prophet ﷺ, became one of the fiercest opponents of what his nephew was calling people to, and the Qur'an would later address him directly over it.

Among the ways he expressed that opposition was a domestic one: he ordered his sons to divorce the Prophet's ﷺ two daughters before either marriage had been consummated.

The marriages ended. Ruqayyah later married Uthman ibn Affan instead — a believer, from the same clan that had just tried to humiliate her family by rejecting her.