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Umm Salama - Mother Of Believers

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Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya, may Allah be pleased with her, was married to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in 4 AH at the age of twenty nine, after her first husband, Abdullah ibn Abdul Asad, had died from the wounds he had received while fighting at the battle of Uhud. Umm Salama and her first husband Abdullah ibn Abdul Asad had been among the first people to embrace Islam in the early days of the Muslim community in Mecca. They suffered at the hands of the Quraish who tried to force them to abandon their new faith, and had been among the first group of Muslims to seek refuge under the protection of the Negus in Abyssinia. When they returned to Mecca, believing that the situation of the Muslims had improved, they found instead that if anything it was worse. Rather than return to Abyssinia, Abdal Asad and Umm Salama received the Prophet's permission to immigrate to Medina, but this proved not to be as easy as they might have imagined. In the words of...

Khadīja bint Khuwaylid (Radi Allahu Anha )

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She believed in me when no one else did;  She accepted Islam when people rejected me;  and She helped and comforted me when there was no one else to lend me a helping hand.  - Muhammad Arabi Sallahu Alaihe Wasallam (Peace Be Upon Him ) about Khadija r.a Assalamoalaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatahu .. May Allah Subbhana wa’taala bless us with spouse who will believe in us , and help us to walk on Siraat e Mustaqeem. This noble lady, known to us as Mother of the Believers (Ummul Momineen) and the first wife of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw), was the first person ever to accept Islam after it had been revealed to him by Jibreel (Angel Gabriel). There is a truly beautiful story told by Yahya ibn Afeef about an occasion when he visited Makkah to stay with Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, one of the uncles of Prophet Muhammad (saw). When the sun started rising, he said, "I saw a man who came out of a place not far from us, faced the Kaaba, and started...