It was also said that she had been married to Musʿab ibn ʿUmayr; when he was killed she was widowed, after which Talhah married her, and she bore him Muḥammad and ʿImrān.
She is the woman who suffered from continuous non-menstrual bleeding (1), and her sister Umm Ḥabībah was afflicted with the same condition (2).
Their mother was the Prophet’s paternal aunt, Ummaymah.
Al-Suhaylī writes that her name is Umm Ḥabīb, and this is the version most commonly attested.
Our teacher al-Dimyāṭī likewise says “Umm Ḥabīb,” adding that her given name was Ḥabībah.
Ibn ʿAsākir, however, holds that Umm Ḥabībah is identical with Ḥamna, the woman who suffered from continuous bleeding.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr states: “The daughters of Jahsh—Zaynab, Ḥamna, and Umm Ḥabībah—all experienced such bleeding.”
Al-Suhaylī further reports that Ḥamna was married to Musʿab, whereas Umm Ḥabīb was the wife of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf.
There is an error in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, namely the claim that Zaynab was married to ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; hence some have suggested that there were two separate women named Zaynab.
Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways relates: “My father told me, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah:
The Prophet ﷺ said to his wives, ‘The one of you whose arm is the longest will follow me first.’
After his death, whenever we gathered we would stretch our arms against the wall, each of us trying to reach farther than the others. We kept that up until Zaynab passed away. She was a short woman—may Allah have mercy on her—and certainly not the tallest of us; so we realized that what he meant by ‘the longest arm’ was generosity in charity.”