She was first married to Masʿūd ibn ʿAmr al-Thaqafī a short time before the advent of Islam, but he divorced her.

After that she wed Abū Ruhm ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, who subsequently passed away.

The Prophet ﷺ then married her upon completing the compensatory ʿumrah (ʿUmrat al-Qaḍāʾ) in the seventh year AH, during the month of Dhū al-Qaʿdah. He consummated the marriage with her at Sarif—apparently the place now known as Abū ʿUrwah.

She ranked among the foremost ladies of her time and transmitted a number of hadiths.

Those who received reports from her include: Ibn ʿAbbās; another nephew of hers, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaddād ibn al-Hād; ʿUbayd ibn al-Sabbāq; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Sāʾib al-Hilalī (1); a fourth nephew, Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm; Kurayb, the freedman of Ibn ʿAbbās; her own freedman, Sulaymān ibn Yasār; his brother ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār; and others.

Ibn Saʿd relates: “Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us—reporting from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā, from al-Fuḍayl ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās—who said:

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out for Mecca in the Year of al-Qaḍiyyah (2), he dispatched Aws ibn Khawlī and Abū Rāfiʿ to al-ʿAbbās, who then married him to Maymūnah. The two envoys lost their camels and stayed several days in the valley of Rābigh until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ caught up with them at Qudayd, by which time they had recovered their mounts. They travelled on with him until he entered Mecca.

He ﷺ then sent word to al-ʿAbbās and informed him of the matter, while Maymūnah had placed her affair in the hands of the Prophet ﷺ.

That is how the narrator worded it, though the correct version is: ‘in the hands of al-ʿAbbās.’

Accordingly, al-ʿAbbās proposed her to the Prophet ﷺ and married her to him (3).