Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb Abdullah ibn Al-Harith ibn Shagna ibn Jaber ibn Razam ibn Nasera ibn Faseya ibn Nasr ibn Sa'ad ibn Bakr ibn Hawazen ibn Mansour ibn Ikrima ibn Khasfah ibn Qays ibn 'Ilan best known as Halimah Al-Sa'adeya was the foster-mother and wetnurse of the Islamic prophet  Muhammad

Muhammad

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. Halimah and her husband were from the tribe of Sa'd b. Bakr, a subdivision of Hawazin

Hawazin

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 (a large North Arabian tribe or group of tribes).

Children

• Abdullah ibn Al-Harith
• Anissa bint Al-Harith
• Hothafa bint Al-Harith (Also known as Al-Shaimaa bint Al-Harith)

Relationship with Muhammad

Wet nurses came to the Mecca of the desert to feed children. They preferred that the fathers of the children they fed were still alive. Although Muhammad's father was dead, Halimah took him just 8 days after he was born. He grew up in Hudaybiyah then in Madinah before returning him to his mother, Aminah bint Wahb

Aminah bint Wahb

Aminah bint Wahb was the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.-Biography According to Islamic History:The daughter of Wahb ibn 'Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah ibn Kilab ibn Murrah, Aminah was born in Mecca. She was a member of the Banu Zuhrah clan in the tribe of Quraysh who were descendants of Ibrahim ...

, just after he was two. Amina then asked Halimah to keep Muhammad for some more time for him to be tougher.

Years after Muhammad's mother died and he got married to Khadijah, Halimah came to him complaining of her poverty. He asked Khadijah to give her 40 sheep. After Muhammad got his first revelation, Halimah and her husband came to the Islamic prophet and embraced Islam. When she came to Muhammad on the day of Hunayn, he took off his robe and put it on the ground for her to sit. halima

Death

She died in 8 A.H. and her grave lies in Jannatul Baqi, Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The remains of the place she used to live in and where Muhammad grew up still stand today.

External Links

• http://www.gulfson.com/vb/f136/t13052/