{"id":99343,"date":"2025-07-25T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=99343"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:55:24","slug":"a-truly-honoured-lady-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/a-truly-honoured-lady-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"A Truly Honoured Lady &#8211; Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Day for Women and Girls of African Descent \u2013 25 July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sahabiyyat of African Descent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Umme Ayman \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Quick Recap \u2013 Hijrah and the Battlefield<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>She embraced Islam in the early stages and pledged allegiance to Rasulullah <\/em>\ufdfa<em>. She has the great fortune of participating in both emigrations, the emigration to Abyssinia and then to Madinah, and is reckoned among the first emigrants. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Sayyidah Umm Ayman \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627 was a courageous woman. She participated in the Battle of Uhud, in 3 A.H. She would provide water to the warriors and nurse the injured. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A few years later in Muharram 7 A.H., she joined in the Campaign to Khaybar. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In the eighth year after hijrah, the battle of Mu\u2019tah took place, wherein her husband, Sayyidina Zaid ibn Harithah \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 was appointed the first of three commanders-in-chief to face the Roman forces and their allies, the Arab Christians. Her husband was martyred during this battle, making her the wife of a martyr and inhabitant of Jannat. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>One year later, she accompanied Rasulullah <\/em>\ufdfa<em> to Makkah for the Conquest of Makkah and she participated in the Battle of Hunayn as well. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Truly Honoured Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the Muhajirin emigrated from Makkah to Madinah; they came without any worldly assets. The Ansar, owing to their generosity and brotherhood, divided their properties with the Muhajirin. They gave them half of the produce from the orchards every year. Sayyidah Umm Sulaim \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627 \u2015 the mother of Anas ibn Malik \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 \u2015 gave Rasulullah \ufdfa her date-palms. Rasulullah \ufdfa bestowed these date palms upon Sayyidah Umm Ayman \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627 as a token of appreciation for her love and care.<\/p>\n<p>Few years later, the Muhajirin, including Rasulullah \ufdfa, obtained land on the outskirts of Madinah, subsequent to the eviction of the Banu Qurayzah and the Banu al Nadir, as well as land in Khaybar after defeating the Jews. Thus, they returned to the Ansar all the fruit gifts which they had received from them. [Bukhari, Hadith: 799; Muslim, Hadith: 4375.] Rasulullah \ufdfa intended to return to Sayyidah Umm Sulaim \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627 her date-palms. The dilemma he faced was that he had already gifted them to Sayyidah Umm Ayman \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627.<\/p>\n<p>These date-palms had sentimental value in her heart, since her beloved child, Rasulullah \ufdfa gifted them. Moreover, she had a sense of motherly pride over Rasulullah \ufdfa for she cared for him as a little child. So when she heard that her date-palms will be taken away, she became upset and said to Anas \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647, \u201cNo, by Him besides Whom none has the right to be worshipped, he will not return those trees to you as he has given them to me.\u201d Rasulullah \ufdfa pleaded with her, \u201cReturn those trees and I will give you so much instead.\u201d But she kept on refusing till he gave her ten times the number of her date-palms. [Bukhari, Book 59, Hadith 446.]<\/p>\n<p>Rasulullah \ufdfa would visit her very often. He honoured her extensively. At the same time, he enjoyed a jovial relationship with her. She told him once to organise a conveyance for her. Rasulullah \ufdfa told her that he will give her a camel\u2019s child to mount. She replied, \u201cIt will not bear me and I do not want it.\u201d Rasulullah \ufdfa commented wittingly, \u201cI will only mount you on the child of a camel after all.\u201d [Siyar A\u2019lam al Nubala\u2019, vol. 2 pg. 225; Munasarat al Sahabah al Afariqah, pg. 43.] She would also make him laugh when he would come to visit her. [Al Isabah, vol. 8 pg. 360. Sahih Ibn al Sakan.]<\/p>\n<p>Rasulullah \ufdfa passed away in 11 A.H. She lived with him and cared for him from his birth until his demise. What a fortunate woman indeed!<\/p>\n<p>After the demise of the Nabi \ufdfa, Sayyidina Abu Bakr \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 told Sayyidina \u2018Umar \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647 \u201cLet us go to visit Umm Ayman just as Rasulullah \ufdfa would visit her.\u201d When they entered her presence, she began to weep. \u201cWhat makes you weep?\u201d they asked. \u201cWhat is in store in the next world for Rasulullah \ufdfa is better than this worldly life,\u201d they told her. She explained, \u201cI weep not because I am ignorant of the fact that what is in store for Allah\u2019s Messenger (in the next world) is better than (this world). But I weep because the revelation which came from the Heaven has ceased to come.\u201d This moved both of them to tears and they began to weep along with her. [Muslim, Hadith: 6009.] Have a look at the astounding wisdom and foresight of this remarkable woman.<\/p>\n<p>She passed away five months after the death of Rasulullah \ufdfa. [Muslim, Hadith: 4375.] Some historians, on the contrary, say that she passed away 20 days after the demise of Sayyidina \u2018Umar \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647, in the early days of the caliphate of Sayyidina \u2018Uthman \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627. [Isabah, vol. 8 pg. 361, 362. Ibn Sa\u2019d.] She is buried in Madinah Munawwarah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Day for Women and Girls of African Descent \u2013 25 July Sahabiyyat of African Descent Umme Ayman \u0631\u0636\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627 Quick Recap \u2013 Hijrah and the Battlefield She embraced Islam in the early stages and pledged allegiance to Rasulullah \ufdfa. She has the great fortune of participating in both emigrations, the emigration to Abyssinia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[5476],"class_list":["post-99343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-feature","tag-special-feature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/download.png?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-pQj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 12:04:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}