Umm Kurz

Umm Kurz al-Ka'biyyah al-Khuza'iyyah, may Allah be pleased with her, was a companion of the Prophet ﷺ from Mecca. She is among the female companions who transmitted hadiths directly from the Prophet ﷺ, contributing to the preservation of the Sunnah on matters particularly relevant to family life and worship. She is best known as the narrator of hadiths about the aqiqah — the sacrifice performed for a newborn child. Her narrations preserve the Prophet's ﷺ specific guidance that for a newborn boy two sheep should be sacrificed and for a newborn girl one sheep, and that the animals need not be of the same sex. These narrations became primary references in all four madhabs for the rulings governing aqiqah. She also narrated the Prophet's guidance that the aqiqah sacrifice removes harm from the child. Her reports are preserved in the Sunan of Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasai, and other collections, where they form the textual basis for the chapter on aqiqah in classical fiqh manuals. She is respected as a reliable narrator whose transmissions on this topic are uncontested.