Rumaysa bint Milhan

Umm Sulaym bint Milhan (Arabic ام سليم بنت ملحان, Umm Sulaym bint Milhan DMG ) (died 650 ) was a companion of the Prophet Mohammed from the Arab tribe Khazraj in Yathrib, which stood in a special relationship of proximity to the Prophet and for their support of the Muslim fighter is praised in the jihad.

Umm Sulaym was only their Kunya, her real name ( ism ), however, was uncertain. Muhammad ibn Sa ʿ d are as their name Ghumaisā ʾ, but also knows the name forms Rumaisa ʾ, Rumaitha, Rumaila, and Sahla ANIFA. By her first husband Maalik ibn Umm Sulaym to nadir was the mother of the famous companions of the Prophet Anas ibn Maalik.

According to several reports, cited by Muhammad ibn Sa ʿ d, Umm Sulaym took even during marriage with Maalik Islam to what has been disapproved by her husband, mainly because she hosted her son to this new faith out. Once Maalik was killed in battle a few time later, recruited another man around her, Abu Talha, who, like it belonged to the clan of the Khazraj Naddschār, but also still clung to the ancient Arabian idolatry. She told him that she would only be willing to marry him if he as they acknowledge the prophethood of Muhammad. He agreed to this condition and was converted to Islam, although they accepted this as his dowry ( mahr ). Umm Sulaym bore him two more sons, ʿ Abd ʿ and Ibn Umair.

The reports handed Muhammad ibn Sa ʿ d, Umm Sulaym show in a special relationship of proximity to the Prophet. He is said to have visited it several times, praying in her house and sometimes kept his nap here. ʿ Amr ibn Ayyub, a disciple of Muhammad ibn Sirin, even took claim for themselves in possession of a special balm to be ( Sukk ), the Umm Sulaym had obtained from any of nap visits the Prophet from his sweat. Another report shows the Mohammed indignant that he did not accompany them to the pilgrimage. Umm Sulaims son Anas worked as a servant in the household of Muhammad. According to a report, the Abū Dāwūd as- Sidschistānī leads, Umm Sulaym said to have refused to cut off a lock of hair of her son who had touched with his hand the prophet. After a narrative that Muslim ibn al - Hajjaj narrated citing Anas, a dessert that Umm Sulaym sent the prophet to a Hochzeicht on miraculous way so that about 300 men could eat it increased.

At the Battle of Uhud Umm Sulaym is drenched the thirsty and have patched up the wounded. Also at the Battle of Hunayn in 630 they should - have been present, where they had a dagger while she was holding their defense in front of their body - in pregnant state. In many hadiths of Umm Sulaym in particular the prayer appears as a mediator of teachings of the Prophet about the ritual prescriptions. In a modern Arabic treatise from Syria it is a role model for female use in Jihad and Da ʿ wa touted both of those reports.