Lady Fatimah bint Qais (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated: I was the wife of a man from the Banu Makhzum tribe, and he gave me an irrevocable divorce. I sent a message to his family and demanded maintenance from them, but they said:“You have no maintenance due from us.”The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“There is no maintenance due to you from them, and you must observe the waiting period (‘iddah). Go to the house of Umm Sharik, and do not neglect to inform us when you make a decision regarding yourself.”Then he said:“At Umm Sharik’s house, the early emigrant Muslim brothers come and go. Go to the house of Ibn Umm Maktum, for he is a blind man; even if you take off your clothes, he will not see anything of you. And do not neglect to inform us when you make a decision regarding yourself.”She (Fatimah bint Qais, may Allah be pleased with her) said: Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan and Abu Jahm al-Adawi (may Allah be pleased with them) both sent me marriage proposals. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“As for Muawiyah, he is a poor man and has nothing. As for Abu Jahm, he never puts his stick down from his shoulder (he is harsh-tempered). What do you think about Usamah bin Zaid (may Allah be pleased with him)?”Her family did not like him, but she said:“I will marry the one to whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has invited me.”So I married Usamah bin Zaid (may Allah be pleased with him).