She transmitted ḥadīth from ʿĀʾishah, Umm Salamah, Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, and from her own sister, Umm Hishām bint Ḥārithah.
Those who narrated from her include her son Abū al-Rijāl Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, his two sons Ḥārithah and Mālik, her nephew the judge Abū Bakr ibn Ḥazm and his two sons ʿAbd Allāh and Muḥammad, al-Zuhrī, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, and many others.
She was a scholar, a jurist, an authoritative proof—abundant in knowledge.
Ayyūb ibn Suwayd narrated, from Yūnus, from Ibn Shihāb, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad:
“He said to me, ‘Young man, I see you eager to seek knowledge; shall I not guide you to its vessel?’ I replied, ‘Indeed.’ He said, ‘You must go to ʿAmrah, for she was brought up in the care of ʿĀʾishah.’ So I went to her and found her an ocean that cannot be exhausted.”
I say: Scholars differ concerning the date of her death. Some state that she died in 98 AH, while others say in 106 AH. Her ḥadīth are numerous in the repositories of Islam.
200 – Muʿādhah bint ʿAbd Allāh, Umm al-Ṣahbāʾ al-ʿAdawiyyah * (ʿ)
The noble lady, the scholar, Umm al-Ṣahbāʾ al-ʿAdawiyyah of Basra, devoted to worship and the wife of the exemplary master Ṣilah ibn Ashyam.
She related ḥadīth from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, ʿĀʾishah, and Hishām ibn ʿĀmir.
Among those who transmitted from her were Abū Qilābah al-Jarmī, Yazīd al-Rishk (1), and ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal.