Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

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.”

(1) Istihadha (prolonged non-menstrual bleeding) occurs when blood continues to flow after a woman’s usual days of menstruation; hence the expressions “she experienced istihadha” and “she is a mustahada.” Her hadith is reported in Sunan Abi Dawud no. 287; Musnad Ahmad 6/439; al-Tirmidhi no. 128; Ibn Majah no. 627; al-Darqutni p. 79; al-Hakim 1/172-173; and al-Bayhaqi 1/338-339. Al-Bukhari graded it hasan, Ahmad declared it sahih, and al-Tirmidhi judged it “hasan sahih.” (2) The same narration is also found in Sahih Muslim no. 334; Abu Dawud nos. 279 and 288; and al-Nasa i 1/83.
وَقِيْلَ: بَلْ كَانَتْ تَحْتَ مُصْعَبِ بنِ عُمَيْرٍ؛ فَقُتِلَ عَنْهَا، فَتَزَوَّجَهَا طَلْحَةُ، فَوَلَدَتْ لَهُ مُحَمَّداً، وَعِمْرَانَ. وَهِيَ الَّتِي كَانَتْ تُسْتَحَاضُ (١) ، وَكَانَتْ أُخْتُهَا أُمُّ حَبِيْبَةَ تُسْتَحَاضُ أَيْضاً (٢) . وَأُمُّهُنَّ عَمَّةُ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ: أُمَيْمَةُ. قَالَ السُّهَيْلِيُّ فِيْهَا: أُمُّ حَبِيْبٍ، وَالأَوَّلُ أَكْثَرُ. وَقَالَ شَيْخُنَا الدِّمْيَاطِيُّ: أُمُّ حَبِيْبٍ، وَاسْمُهَا: حَبِيْبَةُ. وَأَمَّا ابْنُ عَسَاكِرَ، فَعِنْدَهُ: أَنَّ أُمَّ حَبِيْبَةَ، هِيَ حَمْنَةُ المُسْتَحَاضَةُ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبْدِ البَرِّ: بَنَاتُ جَحْشٍ: زَيْنَبُ، وَحَمْنَةُ، وَأُمُّ حَبِيْبَةَ، كُنَّ يَسْتَحِضْنَ. وَقَالَ السُّهَيْلِيُّ: كَانَتْ حَمْنَةُ تَحْتَ مُصْعَبٍ؛ وَكَانَتْ أُمُّ حَبِيْبٍ تَحْتَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بنِ عَوْفٍ. وَفِي (المُوَطَّأ) وَهْمٌ، وَهُوَ أَنَّ زَيْنَبَ كَانَتْ تَحْتَ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، فَقِيْلَ: هُمَا زَيْنَبَانِ. إِسْمَاعِيْلُ بنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ يَحْيَى بنِ سَعِيْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لأَزْوَاجِهِ: (يَتْبَعُنِي أَطْوَلُكُنَّ يَداً) . فَكُنَّا إِذَا اجْتَمَعْنَا بَعْدَهُ نَمُدُّ أَيْدِيَنَا فِي الجِدَارِ، نَتَطَاوَلُ؛ فَلَمْ نَزَلْ نَفْعَلُهُ حَتَّى تُوُفِّيَتْ زَيْنَبُ، وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَةً قَصِيْرَةً، لَمْ تَكُنْ - رَحِمَهَا اللهُ - أَطْوَلَنَا؛ فَعَرَفْنَا أَنَّمَا أَرَادَ الصَّدَقَةَ.
(١) الاستحاضة: أن يستمر بالمرأة خروج الدم بعد أيام حيضها المعتادة، يقال: استحيضت، فهي مستحاضة. وحديثها مخرج في سنن أبي داود (٢٨٧) وأحمد ٦ / ٤٣٩، والترمذي (١٢٨) وابن ماجه (٦٢٧) والدارقطني ص ٧٩، والحاكم ١ / ١٧٢، ١٧٣، والبيهقي ١ / ٣٣٨، ٣٣٩، وحسنه البخاري، وصححه أحمد، وقال الترمذي: حسن صحيح. (٢) أخرج حديثها مسلم في " صحيحه " (٣٣٤) وأبو داود (٢٧٩) و (٢٨٨) والنسائي ١ / ٨٣.

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