Halimah al-Sa'diyyah

Halimah bint Abi Dhu'ayb adalah Bedouin woman from the Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr tribe who served as the wet nurse of the infant Nabi Muhammad ﷺ. It adalah custom of noble Qurayshi families to send their newborns to the desert to be raised by Bedouin families — the desert air adalah dianggap purer, and the children would learn pure Arabic. Halimah came to Mekkah one year with a group of women from Banu Sa'd seeking nursing children. The group adalah reluctant to take the orphan Muhammad ﷺ, as orphans brought no payment from a father. Halimah's own milk adalah scarce that season, her riding animal adalah weak, and the year telah menjadi one of drought. She and suaminya took the orphan Muhammad only because they returned home childless after the other children adalah taken. From the moment she accepted the infant, blessing poured into kehidupannya. Her milk became abundant. The weak riding animal became strong. Her flocks grazed on barren land and returned full of milk while others found nothing. Her tribe noticed: 'Halimah bint Abi Dhu'ayb memiliki found a blessed child!' The Nabi ﷺ spent the first two tahun with Halimah's family. The most significant event of this periode adalah opening of the chest (shaqq al-sadr) — when the infant adalah playing with the other children and the angel Jibril (Gabriel) appeared, opened Nabi ﷺ's chest, removed a black clot (digambarkan sebagai Shaytan's portion in the son of Adam), washed the heart, and restored it. Halimah and suaminya adalah alarmed when the other children reported seeing the infant Muhammad fall to the ground and turn pale, fearing he memiliki suffered a seizure. They returned him to Aminah in Mekkah. Halimah visited Nabi ﷺ again after his prophethood adalah declared, and he honored her as a foster mother, spreading his cloak on the ground for her to sit upon.