Zaynab narrated eleven hadiths; the two eminent compilers agreed upon two of them (1).
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Jahshī relates: “They sold Zaynab bint Jahsh’s house to al-Walīd for fifty thousand dirhams when he demolished the mosque.”
22 – Zaynab, Mother of the Believers, daughter of Khuzaymah ibn al-Hārith ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Hilāliyyah*
She was also called “Mother of the Poor” because of her abundant charity.
Her husband, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jahsh, was martyred on the Day of Uḥud; thereafter the Messenger of Allah ﷺ married her, but she remained with him for only two months—or a little longer—before she passed away, may Allah be pleased with her.
It is also said that she was first married to al-Tufayl ibn al-Ḥārith.
She did not transmit any hadith.
The genealogist ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jurjānī said: “She was with al-Tufayl, then his brother—the martyr ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith al-Muṭṭalibī—married her after him.”
She was the maternal half-sister of the Mother of the Believers Maymūnah.
23 – Umm Ḥabībah, Mother of the Believers, Ramlah bint Abī Sufyān al-Umawiyyah ** (ع)
The noble, secluded lady: Ramlah bint Abī Sufyān, Ṣakhr ibn Ḥarb ibn Umayyah ibn