It is narrated from Qays bin Zayd that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) divorced Sayyidah Hafsah bint Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), and her two maternal uncles, Qudamah and Uthman, the sons of Maz'un, came to her. She wept and said: "By Allah! He (peace and blessings be upon him) did not divorce me because of any wrongdoing or disliked conduct." Just then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came and said: "Jibril (peace be upon him) said to me: Take Hafsah back, for she fasts much and stands much in worship, and she is your wife in Paradise as well."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave Sayyidah Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) one divorce. Then Jibril (peace be upon him) came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Muhammad! Have you divorced Hafsah, when she fasts much and stands much in worship, and she is your wife in Paradise as well?" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) took her back.

It is narrated from Sufyan that he said: Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) was the first woman to emigrate.

It is narrated from Ibn Shihab that among those who came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in Makkah were people who had made the first emigration to Abyssinia and then emigrated to Madinah, among them Abu Salamah bin Abd al-Asad and his wife, Sayyidah Umm Salamah bint Abi Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with them both).

It is narrated from Mus'ab bin Abdullah al-Zubayri that he said: The name of Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) was Ramlah, and she was the first woman to enter Madinah riding a camel as an emigrant. Before the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) she was married to Abu Salamah Abdullah bin Abd al-Asad bin Hilal bin Abdullah bin Umar bin Makhzum. He was the first person to emigrate to Abyssinia, he took part in the battle of Badr, and he passed away in the blessed time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). She bore Abu Salamah Salamah, Umar, Durrah and Zaynab; the mother of all of them is the Mother of the Believers Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her). After Abu Salamah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married her, and her son Umar bin Abi Salamah narrated hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is narrated from Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When you are present with a dead person or a sick person, say what is good, for the angels say 'Amin' to whatever you say." So when Abu Salamah (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away, I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: What should I say? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Recite this supplication: 'Allahummaghfir lana wa lahu, wa a'qibni minhu uqba salihah' (O Allah! Forgive us and him, and grant me a good replacement for him)." I made this supplication, and Allah Almighty granted me the best replacement (for Abu Salamah) in the form of (the companionship of) Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).

Sa'id bin Umar bin Abi Salamah narrated from his father, from Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When a calamity befalls any of you, let him say: 'Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un, Allahumma indaka ahtasibu musibati fa'jurni fiha' (We belong to Allah and to Him we return. O Allah, with You I seek reward for my calamity, so reward me for it)." Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Whenever I wanted to say (this part of the supplication): "And grant me something better than it in exchange," I thought (to myself): Who could be better than Abu Salamah? But I kept on reciting the supplication until I said it in full. Then, when her waiting period (iddah) was over, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed marriage to her, but she declined; then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed, and she declined him too. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent his messenger to her with a proposal of marriage, and she said: "Welcome to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and to his messenger. Convey my greetings of peace to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and tell him that I am a woman with children and very jealous, and that none of my guardians (awliya) is present here." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent word in reply: "As for your saying that you have children, Allah will suffice you for your children; as for your saying that you are jealous, I will pray to Allah to remove your jealousy; and as for the guardians, not one of them, whether present or absent, will be displeased with me (for this marriage)." So she said to her son: "O Umar! Get up and marry me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." So he married her to him, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: "I will not give you less than what I gave your sister so-and-so (one of the pure wives): two water jars, two hand mills, and a leather pillow stuffed with palm fibre." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would come to her while she was nursing (her daughter) Zaynab; whenever the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came, she would take the child into her lap and start nursing her. She said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was extremely modest and generous, and (on seeing this) he would go back. Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him), who was her foster brother, perceived this. One day the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to come to her, and Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) came, went in to her, took Zaynab from her lap and said: "Let go of this ugly, wretched child, on account of whom you have been causing hardship to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came, cast his eyes around the house (and asked): "Where is Zunab (Zaynab)? Why do I not see Zunab?" She said: "Ammar came and took her away." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) consummated the marriage with his wife and said: "If you wish, I will stay seven days with you, but then I will stay seven days with (each of) the other wives." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain. Ibn Umar bin Abi Salamah, whose name Hammad bin Salamah did not mention in this hadith, has been named by other hadith scholars as Sa'id bin Umar bin Abi Salamah, and the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman, from his father, that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married Sayyidah Umm Salamah bint Abi Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with her), she took hold of his (peace and blessings be upon him) garment (at the time of the wedding) to stop him (peace and blessings be upon him) from leaving the house. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If you wish, I will stay seven days with you (to comfort you), but then the turns with the other wives will be reckoned the same way, for a virgin has seven days and a previously married woman has three days." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Umar that the name of Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) was Hind bint Abi Umayyah, and the name of Abu Umayyah was Suhayl bin al-Mughirah bin Abdullah bin Umar bin Makhzum. Her mother was Atikah bint Amir bin Rabi'ah bin Malik bin Jadhimah bin Alqamah bin Firas bin Ghanm bin Malik bin Kinanah. Abu Salamah Abdullah bin Abd al-Asad bin Hilal married her and made both emigrations to the land of Abyssinia with her. There Zaynab was born to them, and after that Salamah, Umar and Durrah were born among the children of Abu Salamah.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar bin Abi Salamah bin Abd al-Asad (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: My father took part in the battle of Uhud, and Abu Usamah al-Jushami struck him in the upper arm with an arrow. He treated his wound for a month and then the wound healed. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent my father (on an expedition) to Qatan in Muharram, at the start of the thirty-fifth month after the Hijrah. He was away for twenty-nine nights, then he returned to Madinah on 8 Safar 4 AH, and the old wound opened up again, because of which he passed away on 8 Jumada al-Akhirah 4 AH. Then my mother observed her waiting period, and she completed her waiting period when ten nights remained of Shawwal 4 AH, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married her in the last days of Shawwal 4 AH. Then the people of Madinah said: An Arab widow came to the leader of Islam and the Muslims as a bride at the beginning of the evening, and in the last part of the night she got up and began grinding at the hand mill; and she was the Mother of the Believers Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her).