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Umm Qays bint Mihsan

أم قيس بنت محصن

A sister of Ukkasha ibn Mihsan, she embraced Islam early at Mecca, gave her pledge and emigrated; she narrated hadith in the two collections, including the one about her small son who had not yet eaten food, and in one story the Prophet ﷺ said 'May her life be long', after which it was said no woman was known to have lived as long as she did.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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Place in the story

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Sunni (transmitted)

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Summary

Umm Qays bint Mihsan al-Asadiyya, sister of Ukkasha ibn Mihsan; she was of those who became Muslim early at Mecca, pledged and emigrated 1. It is said her name is Umayya — Abu al-Qasim al-Jawhari transmitted it in the Musnad of the Muwatta 2.

Narration

She related from the Prophet; from her related Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Utba, Wabisa ibn Ma'bad, her client Adi ibn Dinar, her client Abu al-Hasan, and Abu Ubayda ibn Abdullah ibn Zam'a 2. Among her hadiths in the two Sahihs: she brought a small son who had not yet eaten food 2, and she brought a son of hers she had perfumed — the Prophet said: "why do you women dress your children so?" 2.

The Prophet's prayer for her

Al-Nasa'i narrates from Abu al-Hasan, Umm Qays's client, from her: a son of mine died and I grieved; I said to the one washing him: do not wash my son with cold water and kill him. Ukkasha mentioned it to the Prophet, who said: "what ails her — long is her life" — and they know of no woman who lived as long as she lived 2.

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Member of
Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza
Mentioned in
Muwatta 165

People and things also explored

Ritual purity· Quraysh· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Al-Aswad ibn Nawfal· Amr ibn Umayya· Muhammad· Muhammad ibn Shihab al-Zuhri· 'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Utba

Sources

  1. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 2027
  2. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 2028
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islam.museum contributors. “Umm Qays bint Mihsan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umm-qays-bint-mihsan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Ritual purity

Ritual purity in the jurists' terminology is lifting the state of ritual impurity and removing filth with water or tayammum; the hadith of Abu Malik al-Ash'ari sets it in a sweeping faith-scale — 'purity is half of faith', transmitted by Muslim (223), worded 'the ablution is half of faith' in al-Tirmidhi's route and 'perfecting the ablution is half of faith' in Mu'awiya ibn Salam's route in Ibn Majah; within the same hadith it stands alongside the scale-filling praise, prayer as light, almsgiving as proof, patience as radiance and the Qur'an as argument, so that purity is one of the measures by which a servant's works are weighed on the Day of Resurrection, as Ibn Rajab's commentary presents it.