Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr

A branch of Hawazin, the people of Halima al-Sa'diyya, who nursed the Prophet. ¹

Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr sent to the Prophet a man of theirs called Dimam ibn Tha'laba as a delegate. See the arrival of Dimam. ² When Dimam returned to them and spoke to them, the men and women of his settlement embraced Islam before that day was over. ³ The tribal index of the 1936 edition gives other places for the branch in the accounts of Hunayn. ⁴

Abd al-Muttalib had the Prophet nursed by a woman of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr, Halima bint Abi Dhu'ayb. Her husband, al-Harith ibn Abd al-Uzza, was of the same tribe, and his paternal uncle Hamza was also nursed among them. ^{5 6} Halima describes their land (the lands of Banu Sa'd) as among the most barren, and their women used to go out to Mecca seeking nurslings in the years of drought. ^{7 8} The Prophet remained with them until his fourth or fifth year. ^{1 9}