Her words, “while she was rāghiba,” mean that she was hoping to receive something from me, asking me for assistance. Some scholars held that this was her birth-mother, while others said it was her nursing mother; the first view is the sounder one.

15/326 — Zaynab al-Thaqafiyyah, the wife of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with them), related: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Give charity, O women, even if it is from your jewelry.’ So I returned to ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd and said, ‘You are a man of modest means, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has ordered us to give charity. Go to him and ask whether it will count for me if I give it to you; if not, I shall give it to someone else.’ ʿAbd Allāh replied, ‘Rather, you go to him yourself.’

“I went and found a woman of the Anṣār standing at the door of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—her need was the same as mine. A feeling of awe had been cast upon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Bilāl then came out to us, and we said to him, ‘Go in to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and tell him that two women are at the door asking: Will charity given to their husbands and to the orphans in their care be accepted for them? Do not tell him who we are.’ Bilāl went in and asked. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Who are they?’ He replied, ‘A woman of the Anṣār and Zaynab.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, ‘Which Zaynab?’ He said, ‘The wife of ʿAbd Allāh.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘For them are two rewards: the reward of maintaining kinship and the reward of charity.’” Agreed upon.

[Explanation] The compiler mentions—in the report he cited from Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr (may Allah be pleased with her), quoting both her and her father—that her mother arrived to see her in Madinah while she was rāghiba, so Asmāʾ sought a ruling from the Prophet ﷺ as to whether