Sunday, February 28, 2010

Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya

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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.
Hind bint Abi Umayya, Hind al Makhzumiyah, Hind bint Suhayl, also called as Umm Salama (Mother ofSalama) (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 eyes of the Arab[citation needed].
Early life
She was the daughter of Banu Makhzum nicknamed Zad ar-Rakib because of his generosity to travelers  Her real name was Hind and she was among those hounded and persecuted by the Quraysh.
]Muhammad's era
Umm Salama and her husband, Abd-Allah ibn Abd-al-Asad, were among the first who converted to Islam. Only Ali and a few others were Muslims before them 
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. 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 accepted.
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 
One of her clients became the mother of Hasan al-Basri. Tradition says that Umm Salama often nursed Hasan in his infancy[citation needed].
After Muhammad
Umm Salama died at the age of eighty four[citation needed].
Shi'as have a very positive view of her. They quote the sixth Shi'a Imam, the 8th century Ja'far al-Sadiq:
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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 

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