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Salma bint Amr

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240:(Medina) every year and hold a market at Suq al-Nabt; his attention was caught by Salma's jovial and authoritative manner of trading, and began to make tactful inquiries about her. He soon found out she was well-known and respected, and much sought-after – so much so that she had previously chosen husbands and divorced them as she pleased, and she chose only the best. She was a powerful woman who enjoyed her own position and tribal prestige, and had no intention of abandoning her home establishment and family group. She remained in her own household, and had marriages with those of the men who sought her out. 291:
should stay in the Yathrib oasis to be brought up in her father's house. Once again, Hashim consented. None of Hashim's family in Makkah learned of his birth at the time. Shortly after this Salma bore Hashim a second child, a daughter, Ruqaiyyah. Her husband died after falling ill on a journey returning from a business tour to Syria in
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went to see Shaiba when he was about eight years old and asked Salma to entrust Shaiba in his care. Salma was unwilling to let her son go and the boy refused to leave his mother without her consent. Mutallib then pointed out that the possibilities Yathrib had to offer were incomparable to Makkah.
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Once again, discussions took place. Her husband longed to have their son with him in Makkah as soon as he was weaned, but Salma neither wished to be parted from him, nor for herself to go and live in his household, so she insisted that his education should remain her responsibility, and that he
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Hashim's own reputation was such that he did not expect Salma to be anything other than honoured and pleased by his proposal. However, he soon discovered to his chagrin that although she was certainly prepared to consider him, she would only marry him on her own terms, the chief being that he
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Hashim accepted, and the wedding took place, with the arrangement that both of them should continue to conduct their lives as before, but Hashim would visit and stay in her house whenever he came to Yathrib, the arrangement suited both of them. He spent some time with her then he left for
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consented to let her remain in her own home in Yathrib, controlling her own affairs and business entirely on her own as she was used to, not going with him to
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in 497 CE and named him Shaiba meaning ‘the ancient one’ or ‘white-haired’ for the streak of white hair amidst his jet-black hair on his head.
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One of Salma's husbands was the warrior-chief Uhayhah ibn Julah of Banu Jahjaba, a leading celebrity in the tribal fighting of the
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to join his household, and when they had a son, she kept the boy with her in Yathrib until he was 14 years old or more.
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clan, one of the tribes in Medina. She traded and dealt with the caravans on her own behalf.
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Ibn Kathir 1.131, from Zuhri, suggests Hashim stayed in her father’s house
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Salma was impressed with his arguments, so she agreed to let him go.
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Ibn Hisham 1/137; Rahmat- ul- lil’alameen 1/26,2/24
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Index

Arabic
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
Islamic prophet
Muhammad
Banu Khazraj
Banu Najjar
Hijaz
Arabia
Yathrib
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
Shayba
Asad
Abdullah
Abu Talib
Al-Abbas
Hamza
Abū Lahab
Al-Harith
Umm Hakim
Umaymah
Safiyyah
Arwa
'Atiqah
Fatima bint Asad
Banu Najjar
Khazraj tribe
Yathrib
pre-Islamic period
Yathrib
Banu Najjar

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