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Hind bint Abi Umayya (Arabic: هند بنت أبي أمية‎) (c. 580 - 680) was a wife of Muhammad, and therefore a Mother of the Believers.

Contents 1 Name 2 Biography 2.1 Early life 2.2 Muhammad's era 2.3 After Muhammad 3 Shi'a view 4 Hadith 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Name

Hind bint Abi Umayya, Hind al Makhzumiyah, Hind bint Suhayl, also called as Umm Salama (Mother of Salama) (Arabic: أم سلمة هند بنت أبي أمية‎)^{[citation needed]}.

Following Abdullah ibn Abdulasad’s death in the battle of Uhud she became known as Ayyin al-Arab - the one who had lost her husband^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

She was the daughter of a notable of Banu Makhzum nicknamed Zad ar-Rakib because of his generosity to travelers ^[1]. Her real name was Hind she was among those hounded and presecuted by the Quraysh.

[edit] Muhammad's era

Umm Salama and her husband, Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Asad, were among ^[2]the first who converted to Islam. Only Ali and a few others became Muslims before them ^[3].

Her husband was killed from the wounds he received in the battle of Uhud (23 March 625). She had four children with Abdullah before she married Muhammad: Salama, Umar, Zaynab, and Durra^{[citation needed]}.

Following Abdullah ibn Abdulasad’s death in the battle of Uhud she became known as Ayyin al-Arab - the one who had lost her husband. She had no family in Medina except her small children, but she was given support by both the Muhajirun and Ansar who felt they had a duty to her. When she completed the Iddah (ie. the waiting period of a woman who is either divorced, seeks an annulment or her husband dies which in this case is) four months and ten days, Abu Bakr and then Umar asked to marry her but she declined. Muhammad then approached her and she replied^{[citation needed]}:

"O Messenger of Allah, I have three characteristics. I am a woman who is extremely jealous and I am afraid that you will see in me something that will anger you and cause Allah to punish me. I am a woman who is already advanced in age and I am a woman who has a young family."^{[citation needed]}

Muhammad replied: "Regarding the jealousy you mentioned, I pray to Allah the Almighty to let it go away from you. Regarding the question of age you have mentioned. I am afflicted with the same problem as you. Regarding the dependent family you have mentioned, your family is my family."^{[citation needed]}

Umm Salama was married to Muhammad at the age of 29. Only his sixth and seventh wives (Umm Salamah and Zaynab, respectively) were his direct cousins whom he had known since their childhood. Umm Salamah was a widow with 3 children and a fourth born almost immediately after their marriage ^[4].

One of her clients became the mother of Hasan al-Basri. Tradition says that Umm Salama often nursed Hasan in his infancy^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] After Muhammad

Umm Salama died at the age of eighty four^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Shi'a view

Shi'as have a very positive view of her. They quote the sixth Shi'a Imam, the 8th century Ja'far al-Sadiq:

“

The books were kept by Ali. When he decided to make a journey to Iraq, he entrusted them to Umm Salamah. When he died, they were passed on to Imam Hasan, and from him to Imam Husayn. When he was martyred, they came into the possession of Ali b. Husayn, after which they were passed on to my father [5].

”

[edit] Hadith

Among the hadith she narrated are:

• Hadith of truth

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Umm Salama

v • d • e List of Sahaba     Abbad ibn Bishr `Abbas ibn `Abd al-Muttalib `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas `Abd Allah ibn `Abd al-Asad Abd-Allah ibn Mas'ud `Abd Allah ibn Rawahah Abd-Allah ibn Sailam Abd-Allah ibn Ubayy Abd-Allah ibn Umm-Maktum Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr Abdullah ibn Hudhafah as-Sahmi Abdullah ibn Ja'far Abdullah ibn Sailam Abu Ayyub al-Ansari Abu Bakr Abu Dharr al-Ghifari Abu Dujana Abu Fuhayra Abu Hudhaifah ibn al-Mughirah Abu Hurairah Abu Lubaba ibn Abd al-Mundhir Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah Abu al-Aas ibn al-Rabiah Abu al-Dardaa Abu-Hudhayfah ibn Utbah Abu-Musa al-Asha'ari Abu-Sa'id al-Khudri Akib ibn Usaid Al-Ala'a Al-Hadrami Al-Baraa ibn Malik al-Ansari Al-Hasan Al-Husayn Al-Nahdiah Ali Aminah bint Wahab Ammar ibn Yasir Amr ibn al-Jamuh An-Numan ibn Muqarrin Anas ibn Malik Aqeel ibn Abi Talib Ashaab Bashir ibn Sa'ad Bilal ibn Ribah Bilal ibn al-Harith Fadl ibn Abbas Fatima bint Asad Fatima bint Hizam Fayruz al-Daylami Habibah bint Ubayd-Allah Halima Sadia Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib Harithah bint al-Muammil Hatib ibn Abi Baitah Hisham ibn Al-Aas Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman Hujr ibn Adi Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl Ja`far bin Abī Tālib Julaybib Khabbab ibn al-Aratt Khalid ibn Sa`id Khalid ibn al-Walid Khunais ibn Hudhaifa Kumayl ibn Ziyad Khuzaymat ibn sabet Layla bint al-Minhal Lubaba bint al-Harith Lubaynah Malik Bin Deenar Malik al-Dar Malik ibn Ashter Malik ibn Nuwayrah Mus`ab ibn `Umair Miqdad ibn Aswad Muadh ibn Jabal Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan Mughira ibn Shu'ba Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Muhammad ibn Maslamah Nawfal ibn Khuwaylid Nusaybah bint Ka'ab Qatadah Rab'ah ibn Umayah Rabi'ah ibn al-Harith Sa`ad ibn ar-Rabi` Sa`ad ibn Abi Waqqas Saffiyah bint ‘Abd al-Muttalib Said ibn Aamir al-Jumahi Sa'id ibn Zayd Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfah Salman the Persian Suhayb ar-Rumi Tamim al-Dari Ubaydah ibn al-Harith Umamah bint Zainab Umar Umm Kulthum bint Ali Umm Kulthum bint Jarwila Khuzima Umm Shareek Umm Ubays Uqbah ibn Amir Urwah ibn Mas'ud Usama ibn Zayd Utbah ibn Ghazwan Uthman ibn Hunaif Wahb ibn Abd Manaf Zayd ibn Arqam Zayd ibn Harithah Zayd ibn Thabit Zaynab bint Ali

v • d • e List of Ali's companions     Abdullah ibn Hashim `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali Abu al-Heysam ibn Tayyahan Abu Dharr al-Ghifāri Adi ibn Hatim al-Harith al-A'war al-Hamdani Ammār ibn Yāsir Amr ibn al-Humq al-Khaza'i Asbagh ibn Nubatah Bilal ibn Ribah Habīb ibn Muzāhir Hamam ibn Shurayh Hisham ibn 'Utbah Hujr ibn Adi Jundab ibn Abdullah Khuzayma ibn Thābit Kumayl ibn Ziyād Mālik al-Ashtar Maytham at-Tammār Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym Miqdad ibn Aswad Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Qays ibn Sa'd Salmān the Persian Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhān Sulaym ibn Qays Sulayman ibn Surad Umm Salamah Uthmān ibn Hunayf Uways al-Qarni Zayd ibn Suhan