Then came ʿĀʾishah bint Abī Bakr al-Siddīq al-Tamīmiyyah al-Qurashiyyah. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, married her in Mecca as a virgin after Khadījah’s death, before the emigration—two years before according to one account, and three according to another—when she was six or seven years old. He consummated the marriage in Medina when she was nine, and lived with her for nine years. She was eighteen when he died. She lived for forty-eight years after him, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and died in 57 AH at the age of sixty-six. She was the only virgin he married.

Then came Umm Salamah al-Makhzūmiyyah, whose name was Hind bint Abī Umayyah. Her father was known as Zād al-Rākib (the rider’s provisions), and was one of the notably generous men of Quraysh. Before marrying the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, she had been married to Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Asad. She bore him Salamah, from whom she took her kunyah, as well as ʿAmr and Zaynab.

When Abū Salamah died, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, proposed to her and married her in Shawwāl, 2 AH. He consummated the marriage in Shawwāl and said to her, “If you wish, I shall spend seven nights with you and seven with each of them; or, if you wish, I shall spend three nights with you and then resume my rounds.” She said, “Three.” She died in 60 AH, at the beginning of Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah’s caliphate. According to another account, she died in Ramadan, 59 AH. Abū Hurayrah led her funeral prayer, as she had requested in her will. The governor of Medina at that time was Marwān ibn al-Hakam, or, according to another account, al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah. She was buried in al-Baqīʿ.

Then came Hafsah bint ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb al-ʿAdawiyyah al-Qurashiyyah, the full sister of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar. Her mother was Zaynab, daughter of Mazʿūn al-Jumahī. He, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, married her in Shaʿbān, 3 AH, or, according to another account, in the second year of the Hijri era. Before him, she had been married to Khunays ibn Hudhāfah al-Sahmī. When she was widowed, the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, proposed to her and married her. He divorced her once, then took her back, because “Gabriel, peace be upon him, came down to him and said, ‘Take Hafsah back, for she fasts often and prays much at night, and she is your wife in Paradise.’” She died when al-Hasan pledged allegiance to Muʿāwiyah in 41 AH, or, according to another account, in 47 AH.

Then came Zaynab bint Khuzaymah al-Hilāliyyah al-ʿĀmiriyyah. In the pre-Islamic era, she was known as the mother of