UMM SULAYM RUMAYSA (رضي الله عنها)
She is Umm Sulaym Rumaysa bint Milhan bin Khalid bin Zayd bin Haram.
Others have said that her first name is Ghumaysa, or Sahlah, or Unayfah, or Rumaythah.
She is the mother of Anas bin Malik, the servant of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Umm Sulaym first married Malik bin an-Nadr and gave birth their son Anas bin Malik.
After they separated and he died, she married Abu Talhah Zayd bin Sahl al-Ansari.
She gave birth to their sons Abu 'Umayr and 'Abdullah.
Umm Sulaym & Her Son Anas bin Malik Embrace Islam:
Is'haq bin Abdillah said about his grandmother Umm Sulaym,
"She believed in the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
She narrated her story, saying: Abu Anas came, and he had been absent.
He said to her, 'Did you turn??
She replied, 'I did not turn.
Rather, I believed."
Then she said to her son Anas,
'Say: I testify that nothing has the right to be worshiped except Allah, and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.'
Anas did so and embraced Islam.
His father Malik said to Umm Sulaym, 'Don't corrupt my son against me!'
She replied, 'I am not corrupting him!'
Malik left them in a state of anger, intending to go to Sham, when he encountered his enemy and his enemy killed him.
Umm Sulaym said, 'Certainly, I will not wean Anas until he leaves breast milk on his own, and I will not marry until Anas tells me to.'"
A Wise Mother:
Anas said, "Umm Sulaym took me to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, 'Here is Anas, he is going to serve you.
Supplicate to Allah on his behalf.'
The Prophet ﷺ said:
اللَّهُمَّ أَكْثِرْ مَالَهُ وَوَلَدَهُ وَبَارِكْ لَهُ فِيمَا أَعْطَيْتَهُ .
"O Allah, increase his wealth and his progeny, and confer blessings upon him in everything You have bestowed upon him.'
In another narration, he said:
اللهم أكثر ماله وولده وأدخله الجنة .
O Allah, increase his wealth and his offspring and enter him into Paradise."
Anas would say,
"I have a garden in Madinah that bears fruit twice a year, and I am hoping for the third."
(Meaning, entering Paradise.)
Anas bin Malik lived to be 125 years old.
The Greatest Dowry:
Abu Talhah proposed to Umm Sulaym while he was still a pagan.
She said, "By Allah, a man like you is not rejected, but you are a disbeliever and I am a Muslim.
And it is not permissible for me to marry you.
Don't you know, O Abu Talhah, that your sculpted by 'Abd from the family of so-and-so, and if you were to were ignite them with fire, they would surely burn?!
If you embrace Islam, that will suffice as my dowry, and I will not ask you for anything else."
So he left while that was in his heart.
Then he returned and said,
"I have accepted that which you presented to me."
Thus, her dowry was nothing other than Islam.
The Prophet ﷺ Would Visit Umm Sulaym's Family:
Anas bin Malik said, "The Prophet ﷺ used to visit Umm Sulaym, and she would present something prepared specially for him.
I had a younger brother called Abu 'Umayr.
He had a sparrow with which he played, but it died.
So one day, the Prophet ﷺ came to see him and saw him grieved.
He asked, 'Why is he sorrowed?'
The people replied, 'His sparrow has died.'
Anas said,
"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not enter anyone's home in Madinah other than that of Umm Sulaym and those of his wives.
He was asked about that and he replied:
إِنِّي أَرْحَمُهَا، قُتِلَ أَخُوهَا مَعِي.
""I take pity on her; her brother was killed alongside me.""
Her brother was Haram bin Milhan,
the martyr who said during the Battle of the Well of Ma'unah when he was stabbed in the back,
Umm Sulaym Was Promised Paradise:
Anas said that the Prophet ﷺ said:
ودَخَلْتُ الْجَنَّةَ، فَسَمِعْتُ خَشْفَةٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيَّ فَإِذَا أَنَا بِالْعُمَيْصَاءِ بِنْتِ ملْحَانَ.
I entered Paradise and I heard some footsteps in front of me, and there was Ghumaysa' bint Milhan.
A Wise & Caring Wife:
Anas bin Malik said, "My mother (Umm Sulaym) gave birth to a son and sent me with him to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
I said, "This is my brother,' so he took him and softened a date and rubbed it on his palate."
Anas said, "The son of Umm Sulaym (Abu 'Umayr) became sick!"
When Abu Talhah went to the masjid, he died.
Umm Sulaym said to her family, 'No one inform him of the death of his son until I inform him."
فلما رجع أبو طلحة قال : ما فعل ابني؟ قالت أم سليم وهى أم الصبي : هو أسكن ما كان، فقربت إليه العشاء فتعشى .
"When Abu Talhah returned, he said, 'How is my son doing?'
Umm Sulaym (who was the boy's mother) said, 'He is more peaceful now than he was before.'
She brought him his dinner and he ate.
"After dinner, Abu Talhah lay down to sleep.
Umm Sulaym perfumed herself and lay next to him and they were intimate.
At the end of the night, Umm Sulaym said, 'O Abu Talhah, if some people borrow something from another family and then (the members of the family) ask for its return, would they refuse to give it back to them?'
He said, 'No.'
She said:
فَإِنَّ ابْنَكَ كَانَ عَارِيَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ، فَقَبَضَهُ. فَاسْتَرْجَعَ، وَحَمِدَ اللَّهَ .
"Verily, your son was a loan from Allah, and He took his soul.
Thus, say: "Verily, from Allah we come and to Him we return" and praise Allah."
Abu Talhah got angry and said,
"You left me uninformed until I stained myself, and then you told me about my son."
He went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and informed him about the matter.
Thereupon, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
بَارَكَ اللهُ لَكُما في لَيْلَتِكُمَا.
"May Allah bless the night you spent together!"
"Umm Sulaym became pregnant that night.
Thereafter, she gave birth to a boy.
Abu Talhah said to me (Anas), 'Take the boy and carry him to the Prophetﷺ, and he sent some dates with me.
The Prophet ﷺ took a date, chewed it, and put it in the mouth of the baby and rubbed the chewed date around the baby's gum, and he named him 'Abdullah."
Abayah said,
"I saw Abdullah and he had seven sons.
All of them had memorized the Qur'an."
Her Courage:
She participated in the Battles of Hunayn and Uhud.
She is from the virtuous women.
Muhammad bin Sirin said,
"Umm Sulaym was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the Battle of Uhud and she had a dagger with her."
Her son Anas said,
"Umm Sulaym carried a dagger during the Battle of Hunayn.
Abu Talhah said, 'O Messenger of Allah, Umm Sulaym has a dagger with her!'
She said, 'O Messenger of Allah, if any pagan gets close to me, I am going to rip his stomach open with it.
Her Ahadith:
She narrated 14 ahadith.
End...
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Some Notes from the book 📙
Chapter Umm Sulaym :
- Abu Anas said "did you turn?"
This phrase is used when a person abandons their religion and adopts another religion.
- Imam an-Nawawi said,
"Umm Sulaym and her sister Umm Haram were mahram for the Prophet ﷺ.
They were his maternal aunts through breastfeeding."
(Explanation of Sahih Muslim)
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