“Indeed, You know, my Lord, that I delight in accompanying Your Messenger whenever he sets out and in entering with him whenever he enters, yet what You see before me has prevented me.”

Umm Sulaym said to him, “O Abu Talhah, by Allah, I do not feel with this child the pains of labor that I used to feel before. Set out with us, and do not stay behind the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.”

They departed, and when they reached Medina she delivered her child, and it was a boy. She said to those around her, “Let no one nurse him until you have taken him to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.”

At daybreak his brother Anas ibn Malik (1) carried him to the Prophet ﷺ. When the Prophet ﷺ saw him approaching he said, “Perhaps Umm Sulaym has given birth.”

He replied, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah,” and he placed the infant in