Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr

أم كلثوم بنت أبي بكر

Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr al-Siddiq — her mother was the Ansari woman Zayda bint Kharija; married Talha b. Ubaydallah (mother of his Zakariyya and A'isha), and after his death married Abd al-Rahman b. Abdallah b. Abi Rabi'a al-Makhzumi 1.

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Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr al-Siddiq al-Taymiyya; a Successor whose father died while she was still in the womb, so she was born after his death. 2

Her transmission

She transmitted from Umm Salama the story of the musk sent to the Prophet ﷺ's wives; al-Thawri transmitted it from Yahya ibn Humayd from Zaynab bint Abi Salama (may God be pleased with her) from her mother from her, Ibn Hibban included it in his Sahih, and Ibn Manda transmitted it through Muhammad ibn Sa'id from Humayd ibn Nafi' from her. She has another report from A'isha in Sahih Muslim, and the Companion Jabir ibn Abdallah al-Ansari transmitted from her. 3

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 1768· Muwatta 1775

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Breastfeeding (radaa)· Aisha bint Abi Bakr· Malik ibn Anas· Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba· Muhammad ibn Shihab al-Zuhri· Nafi' al-Madani· Sahla bint Suhayl· Salim, freed slave of Abu Hudhayfa

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
  2. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p.2030
  3. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p.2030-2031
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Muwatta, Book of Breastfeeding (radaa)

The Book of Breastfeeding, sixteenth book of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997), in volume 2: 19 reports (1762–1780) in three babs, PDF pp. 119–128 of volume 2. It opens with fosterage of infants and the two-year limit, turns to fosterage of adults and the case of Salim, mawla of Abu Hudhayfa, and closes with general rules and the ruling on intercourse with a nursing wife.