and said, “Today the buttress of Islam has given way.” She had likewise wept when the Prophet ﷺ passed away (1).

Al-Wāqidī stated that she died during the caliphate of ʿUthmān, and five of her reports are found in the Musnad of Baqī.

25 – Hafsah bint ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-ʿAdawiyyah, Mother of the Believers

A lady of lofty rank, she was the daughter of the Commander of the Faithful, Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. The Prophet ﷺ married her after her waiting period for Khunays ibn Ḥudhāfah al-Sahmī (2)—one of the early Emigrants—had ended, and that was in the third year after the Hijrah.

ʿĀʾishah said, “Among the Prophet’s wives ﷺ, she was the one who could rival me.”

It is reported that she was born five years before the beginning of the Prophetic mission, which means the Prophet ﷺ consummated the marriage with her when she was about twenty years old.

She related several hadiths from him, and among those who transmitted from her were her brother Ibn ʿUmar—she was six years older than he—and Ḥārithah ibn