Al-Zubayr struck Asmāʾ, so she cried out to her son ʿAbd Allāh. He came running, and when al-Zubayr saw him he said, “Your mother is divorced if you enter!” ʿAbd Allāh replied, “Would you make my mother the pawn of your oath?” He forced his way in and rescued her, and thus she became irrevocably separated from him. (1)

Hammād ibn Salamah narrated from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah that al-Zubayr divorced Asmāʾ and took ʿUrwah with him, though the boy was still very young. (2)

Usāmah ibn Zayd transmitted from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, who said, “Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr was generous of spirit.” (3)

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah related from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad: I heard Ibn al-Zubayr say, “I have never seen any woman more open-handed than ʿĀʾishah and Asmāʾ, but each showed her generosity differently: ʿĀʾishah would accumulate one thing after another, and when she had gathered a sizeable amount she would distribute it where it belonged, whereas Asmāʾ never saved anything for the next day.” (4)

Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd said: ʿUmar allotted one thousand to each of the women who had emigrated, among them Umm ʿAbd and Asmāʾ. (5)

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah reported from Fāṭimah bint al-Mundhir that whenever Asmāʾ was struck by a serious illness, she would set every slave she owned free. (6)