Tariq bin Shihab

Umm Habibah, may Allah be pleased with her, whose name was Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan, was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and one of the Mothers of the Believers. She was the daughter of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, the leader of Mecca and long-time opponent of Islam, yet she embraced Islam early in the Meccan period and emigrated to Abyssinia with her first husband Ubaydullah ibn Jahsh. When her husband apostasized and became a Christian in Abyssinia, she endured the pain of separation and remained firm in her faith as a Muslim widow in a foreign land. The Prophet ﷺ later sent a message through the Negus of Abyssinia requesting her hand in marriage, and their marriage was contracted by proxy in Abyssinia — one of the few marriages of the Prophet conducted in such a manner. Her father Abu Sufyan embraced Islam years later at the conquest of Mecca. She narrated hadiths on prayer, the Prophet's household practices, the virtue of praying the twelve daily voluntary prayers (rawatib), and other matters of worship. Her narrations appear in Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and the four Sunan collections.