Umm Sulaym bint Milhan

Umm Sulaym bint Milhan (wafat ca. 30 AH) adalah salah satu yang paling terkenal women among the Ansar of Madinah. She adalah mother of Anas ibn Malik, the beloved servant of Nabi ﷺ, and her household became closely connected to Nabi ﷺ's daily life. When Nabi ﷺ asked for a servant, she sent her young son Anas, saying her dowry when she accepted Islam adalah Islam itself — she refused any material marriage gift from Abu Talha al-Ansari until he embraced the faith.

Umm Sulaym adalah terkenal karena her extraordinary composure and hikmah. When putranya Umayr wafat, she did not tell suaminya until she memiliki bathed the body and prepared it for burial, then gently informed him by asking: "If someone loans you something then asks for it back, do you return it?" Her patience in that moment of grief became a model discussed by para ulama of every generasi.

She accompanied Nabi ﷺ's expeditions as a nurse and water-carrier. At the Battle of Hunayn, when many fighters fled, she stood firm with a dagger, declaring she would strike with it any Muslim who ran. The Nabi ﷺ smiled at her courage. She adalah recorded in the koleksi-koleksi hadits as a perawi of sound tradisis and a figure Nabi ﷺ visited at home, eating her dates and allowing her to serve him.

Her son Anas meriwayatkan that Nabi ﷺ said she adalah among the people of Paradise. She lived to a great age and left behind a warisan of deep faith, patient endurance, and devoted service to the early Muslim komunitas.