Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib

Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib, aunt of the Prophet ¹.

Ibn Hajar says her Islam is disputed, that Muhammad ibn Ishaq denied it, and that no one but Muhammad ibn Sa'd mentions her. He relates from Ibn Sa'd, in the chapter on the Prophet's aunts among the women's classes, that her mother was Fatima bint Amr ibn A'idh al-Makhzumiyya, and that in the Jahiliyya she married "Jahir ibn Ri'ab al-Asadi" (as in this edition), ally of Harb ibn Umayya, bearing him Abdullah, Ubaydullah, Abu Ahmad, Zaynab and Hamna ¹. The Prophet gave her forty wasqs of Khaybar's dates ¹.

Ibn Hajar infers from this that her daughter Zaynab was alive when the Prophet married her ¹. This entry also mentions her daughter Hamna bint Jahsh.

Her Islam is disputed: Ibn Ishaq denied it, and she is mentioned by none but Ibn Sa'd ¹. In Atika's entry Abu Umar transmits that the Islam of the Prophet's aunts was disputed, and that Ibn Ishaq said none of them became Muslim but Safiyya ².