Harzat Umm Habiba - By:Shifa Faisal

Harzat Umm Habiba

 Real name was Ramla the daughter of Abu Sufyan and sister of

Muawiyah .

 Cousin of the prophet.

 One of the early converts.

 Left for Abyssinia with her husband Ubaidullah bin jahsh.

 Her husband converted in Christianity and left her.

 After hearing this fro Hazrat amr bin umaiyyah the prophet

asked for her hand and Married her in 6 AH .

 Ibn az-zubayr reported, “ on the authority of umm habibah that

she was the wife of ibn jahsh, but he died ,he was among those

who migrated ti Abyssinia.negus then married her to the apostle

of allah(P.B.U.H)”

 When Abu Sufyan came to sign the treaty of hudaibiyah he went

to visit his daughter.however he wanted to sit on the

prophet(S.A.W)bed and she did not allow him as he was an idol

worshipper.

  "As he went to sit on the apostle’s carpet she folded it up so

that he could not sit on it. 'My dear daughter,' he said, 'I hardly

know if you think that the carpet is too good for me or that I am

too good for the carpet!' She replied: 'It is the apostle’s carpet

and you are an unclean polytheist. I do not want you to sit on the

apostle’s carpet.' 'By God,' he said, 'since you left me you have

gone to the bad.

 She was gentle and virtous by nature.

 She was well versed in the matters of shariah.

 54 narrations are narrated by her.

 She had a strong and firm faith in isalm and used to strictly follow

the ahadith and also told others to follow them.

 She used to perfume a few days after the death of her father just

to show muslim not to mourn a dead more than three days.

 Died at the age of 73 in 44 AH In the rule of muawiyah.