How often she filled her lungs with the dust of battle, fragrant (1) with the perfumes of Paradise! She stained (2) her fingertips with the blood of the warriors as she wiped their wounds with her own hands and secured the bandages (3). Time after time she poured water into the throats of the thirsty as they breathed their last in the cause of Allah… carried provisions for them… and mended their arrows.

She was present at the Battle of Uhud with her husband Abu Talhah alongside the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and she and ʿAishah—may Allah be pleased with them both—kept hauling water-skins on their backs and emptying them into the mouths of the fighters.

She also witnessed the Battle of Hunayn, and she had taken for herself