“And may you be richly rewarded on our behalf and on his.

My husband and I then left, overwhelmed with grief at parting from him… and our little boy was no less sorrowful than we were, aching and heartsick at the separation.
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In the years that followed, Halimah al-Saʿdiyyah lived on until she reached a very advanced age (1)… and she saw the orphan child she had once nursed become a leader of the Arabs, a guide for humanity, a Prophet for all mankind.

After she had come to him as a believer, affirming the Book revealed to him, she visited him. The moment he saw her, joy swept over him and he began to exclaim, “Mother… Mother…!”

He removed his cloak, spread it beneath her, and honoured her visit with the utmost respect.