Halimah al-Sa'diyyah, His desert foster mother
In the hadithHis desert foster mother
Halimah al-Sa'diyyahحليمة السعدية
Approximate dateLands of Banu Sa'd, near Ta'if
The Bedouin nurse who took the orphan no one wanted, and found her life full of blessing.
Halimah of Banu Sa'd came to Makkah in a year of drought on a weak donkey, and took the orphan baby because no richer child was left. From then on, her milk, her camel and her flock flourished. He grew up in the desert with her family, and there, as a boy, his chest was opened by Jibril.
What does the Quran say?
What does the hadith say?
The lesson
The child others passed over was the greatest blessing of all.
Where do they appear in the story?
Who else is linked?
Who lived at the same time?
Muhammad ﷺSayf ibn Dhi YazanKhosrow IHamzah ibn Abd al-MuttalibAbu BakrAbu Sufyan ibn HarbAl-Abbas ibn Abd al-MuttalibAmmar ibn Yasir
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Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
People of the hadith
- Hajar
- Jurayj
- The boy of the trench
- The monk of the trench
- The king of the trench
- The three men in the cave
- The man who killed a hundred
- The leper, the bald man and the blind man
- The woman and the cat
- The woman who gave water to a dog
- The man who lent a thousand dinars
- The man who asked his sons to burn him
- The jar of gold
- The man whose charity went astray
- The merchant who forgave debts
- Barsisa
- The last man to enter Paradise
- The Jassasa
- Ibn Sayyad
- Adnan
- Fihr ibn Malik
- Amr ibn Luhay
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- Abd Manaf
- Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
- Abd al-Muttalib
- Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Aminah bint Wahb
- Thuwaybah
- Halimah al-Sa'diyyah
- Bahira
- Nastur
- Maysarah
- Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayl
- Quss ibn Sa'ida
- Waraqa ibn Nawfal
- Abu Talib
- Ashama the Najashi
- Salman's teachers
- Umayyah ibn Abi al-Salt
- Uways al-Qarani