She was the mother of the caliph ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the sister of the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah, and the last of the female Emigrants to pass away. She transmitted a number of hadiths, lived to a great age, and was known as Dhāt al-Nitāqayn (the Woman of the Two Sashes). Her mother was Qutaylah bint ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā al-ʿĀmiriyyah.

Those who narrated from her include her two sons, ʿAbd Allah and ʿUrwah; her grandson ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUrwah; his grandson ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbd Allah; Ibn ʿAbbās; Abū Waqqid al-Laythī; Ṣafiyyah bint Shaybah; Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir; Wahb ibn Kaysān; Abū Nawfal Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Aqrab; al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḥanṭab; Fāṭimah bint al-Mundhir ibn al-Zubayr; her freedman ʿAbd Allah ibn Kaysān; Ibn Abī Mulaykah; and her fosterling (1) ʿAbbād ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, together with several others.

She was a little more than ten years older than ʿĀʾishah. She emigrated while pregnant with ʿAbd Allah, and it is said that she never lost a single tooth. She was present at the Battle of Yarmūk alongside her husband al-Zubayr. She, her father, her grandfather, and her son ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr therefore comprise four successive generations of Companions.

Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us; al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Farāwī informed us; ʿAbd al-Ghāfir al-Fārisī informed us; Ibn ʿAmrawayh informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn Sufyān told us; Muslim told us; Dāʾūd ibn ʿAmr narrated to us; Nāfiʿ ibn ʿUmar—reporting from Ibn Abī Mulaykah—said:

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