She was first married to al-Ḥārith, the brother of Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb, but he died and left her a widow.

Later she married al-ʿAwwām, the brother of the foremost of women, Khadījah bint Khuwaylid; to him she bore al-Zubayr, al-Sāʾib (1), and ʿAbd al-Kaʿbah (2).

The sound view is that none of the Prophet’s aunts embraced Islam except her.

She grieved over the death of her brother Ḥamzah, yet she remained patient and sought her reward with Allah.

She was among the earliest emigrants, though I do not know whether she accepted Islam along with her brother Ḥamzah or later with her son al-Zubayr.

On the day of the Trench she was in the fortress of Ḥassān ibn Thābit. She said, “Ḥassān was with us among the dependants (3). A Jew passed by the fortress and began circling around it while the Muslims were facing their enemy on the front lines.

“She then continued the account, stating that she went down and killed the Jew with a wooden pole (4).”

Hishām narrated from his father, from her, that she said:

“I am the first woman ever to kill a man. Ḥassān was with us when a Jew passed by and started to circle the fortress, so I said to Ḥassān,

‘This fellow might disclose our quarters; I do not trust him. Get up and kill him.’

“He replied, ‘May Allah forgive you; you know I am not the man for that.’ So I girded myself,”