a dagger that day and had fastened it at her waist. When her husband, Abū Ṭalḥah, noticed it he said, “O Messenger of Allah, this is Umm Sulaym carrying a dagger.”
The Prophet ﷺ asked her, “What is this, Umm Sulaym?!”
She answered, “A dagger I have taken so that if any of the idolaters comes near me, I will slit (1) his belly with it…”
At these words the Messenger of Allah ﷺ burst into laughter, delighted by what she had said.
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And now …
Do you imagine that anywhere on earth there could be a woman more fortunate or with a more splendid conclusion than Umm Sulaym, after the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said of her: “I entered Paradise and there I heard a faint rustling (2)… so I asked, ‘Who is that?!’”