Biography

Umm Salamah and her husband Abu Salamah emigrated to Abyssinia and then to Madinah, where she was separated from her husband and child for a time before reaching them. After Abu Salamah died of his wounds, the Prophet ﷺ married her.

She was wise and learned: at Hudaybiyyah she advised the Prophet ﷺ to shave his head first, and the Companions followed. She narrated many hadith and was the last of the Mothers of the Believers to die, around 61 AH.

Virtues

• She narrated the supplication for calamity — “We belong to Allah and to Him we return; O Allah, reward me in my affliction and replace it with something better” — which she said when Abu Salamah died, and Allah gave her the Prophet ﷺ.

  Sahih Muslim 918