She also nursed his cousin Abū Sufyān ibn al-Hārith ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib alongside him. He was fiercely hostile to the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—but embraced Islam in the year of the conquest and became a good Muslim.

His uncle Hamzah had been placed with a wet nurse among Banū Sa‘d ibn Bakr. Hamzah’s foster mother nursed the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—one day while he was in the care of his foster mother Halīmah. Thus, Hamzah was the Prophet’s foster brother—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—through two women: Thuwaybah and the woman from Banū Sa‘d.

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The Women Who Cared for Him—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—

Among them was his mother, Āminah bint Wahb ibn ‘Abd Manāf ibn Zuhrah ibn Kilāb.

They also included Thuwaybah, Halīmah, and Halīmah’s daughter al-Shaymā’, his foster sister, who helped her mother care for him. She was the one who came to him with the delegation of Hawāzin. He spread out (1) his cloak for her and seated her on it, honouring the regard that was her due.

Among them was the virtuous and noble Umm Ayman, Barakah the Abyssinian. He had inherited her from his father, and she was his nurse. He married her to his beloved Zayd ibn Hārithah, and she bore him Usāmah. Abū Bakr and ‘Umar visited her after the death of the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and found her weeping. They asked, “Umm Ayman, why are you weeping? What is with Allah is better for His Messenger.”

She replied, “I know that what is with Allah is better for His Messenger. I weep only because revelation from heaven has ceased.” Her words moved them to tears, and they too wept (2).