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).