Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abī al-Dardāʾ said, “The name of the jurist Umm al-Dardāʾ for whom Abū al-Dardāʾ died and whom Muʿāwiyah sought in marriage is Hujaymah bint Ḥayy al-Awsābiyyah.”
Ibn Jābir and ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀtikah said: “Umm al-Dardāʾ was an orphan raised in the care of Abū al-Dardāʾ. She would accompany him wearing a burnous cloak, pray in the men’s rows, sit in the circles of the reciters, and learn the Qur’an—until one day Abū al-Dardāʾ said to her, ‘Join the women’s rows.’”
ʿAbd Allah ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated from Abū al-Zāhiriyyah, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from Umm al-Dardāʾ, that she said to Abū al-Dardāʾ at the moment of his death, “In this world you asked my parents for my hand, and they married me to you; now I ask you for yourself in the Hereafter.” He replied, “Then do not marry after me.” Later Muʿāwiyah proposed to her; when she informed him of what had occurred, he said, “Then commit yourself to fasting.”
It is also reported through another route from Luqmān ibn ʿĀmir, who added, “She possessed beauty and charm.”
Maymūn ibn Mihrān transmitted from her that she said: Abū al-Dardāʾ told me, “Do not ask anyone for anything.” I said, “And if I have need?” He replied, “Follow the harvesters; watch what drops from them, collect it, thresh it, grind it, and eat it.”
Makḥūl said, “Umm al-Dardāʾ was a jurist.”
ʿAwn ibn ʿAbd Allah said, “We used to visit Umm al-Dardāʾ and remember Allah in her presence.”
Yūnus ibn Maysarah said, “Women would worship with Umm al-Dardāʾ; when they became too weak to remain standing, they would cling to ropes (1).”
ʿUthmān ibn Ḥayyān said, “I heard Umm al-Dardāʾ say: ‘Indeed, one of them says…’”