among the first cohort (1) of steadfast believers. At that moment Ṣafiyyah gathered every strand of honor to herself: the eminence of noble lineage and the dignity bestowed by Islam.

Ṣafiyyah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, together with her son al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, joined the procession of light and suffered, as the earlier Muslims had, the violence, oppression, and tyranny of Quraysh.

When Allah permitted His Prophet and the believers with him to emigrate to Madinah, the noble Hashimite lady left behind Mecca—with all its fragrant memories and its myriad glories—and set her face toward the City of the Messenger, migrating for the sake of Allah and His Messenger.

Even though at that time the great lady was approaching sixty years of a long and eventful life, she nonetheless had exploits on the fields of jihad that history still recalls