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Chapter 5: Mentioning of the rearing and suckling of the Messenger of<br />
ﷺ <strong>Al</strong>laah<br />
Thuwaibah (the freed slave of Abu Lahab): the first woman who suckled the Prophet<br />
mother. 21 after his ﷺ<br />
Narrated Umm Ḥabeebah Bint Abu Sufyaan ُاهلل ُعنهما :رضي said: O <strong>Al</strong>laah’s Messenger<br />
said: ❝Do you like ﷺ Marry my sister, (`Azzah) Bint Abu Sufyaan. The Prophet !ﷺ<br />
that?❞ I replied: Yes, for even now I am not your only wife and I like that my sister<br />
should share the good with me. The Prophet ﷺ said: ❝But that is not lawful for me<br />
(to have two sisters together in marriage).❞ I said: We have heard that you want to<br />
marry Durrah Bint Abu Salamah. He ﷺ said: ❝(You mean) the daughter of Umm<br />
Salamah?❞ I said: Yes. He ﷺ said: ❝Even if she were not my step-daughter, she<br />
would be unlawful for me to marry as she is my foster niece. I and Abu Salamah were<br />
suckled by Thuwaibah. So you should not present to me your daughters or your<br />
sisters (in marriage).❞ Narrated `Urwah: Thuwaibah was the freed slave girl of Abu<br />
22 .ﷺ Lahab whom he had manumitted, and then she suckled the Prophet<br />
21 [TN: After the Prophet’s mother, Thuwaibah, the concubine of Abu Lahab, was the first woman who suckled the<br />
Prophet ﷺ with her son, Masrooḥ. She had, from before, suckled Hamzah Ibn `Abdul-Muṭṭalib ,رضيُاهللُعنه the<br />
.رضيُاهللُعنه and later on, she suckled Abu Salamah Ibn `Abd al-Asad al-Makhzoomee ,ﷺ uncle of the Prophet<br />
Ibn Ḥajar رمحهُاهلل said: “Thuwaibah the freed slave woman of Abu Lahab” – she was mentioned by Ibn Mandah in<br />
(his book) “al-Ṣaḥaabah”. He said: There was a difference of opinion as to whether she became Muslim. Abu<br />
Nu`aim said: We do not know of anyone who stated that she became Muslim except him (i.e. Ibn Mandah). What<br />
ﷺ used to honor her and she used to visit him after he ﷺ it says in the books of <strong>Seerah</strong> is that the Prophet<br />
married Khadeejah, and he ﷺ used to send gifts to her from Madeenah. And after the conquest of Khaybar she<br />
died, as did her son Masrooḥ.<br />
His saying: “Abu Lahab manumitted her and she breastfed the Prophet ”ﷺ – the apparent meaning is that he<br />
manumitted her before she breastfed the Prophet ,ﷺ but what appears in the books of <strong>Seerah</strong> is the opposite,<br />
which is that Abu Lahab only manumitted her before the Hijrah (Prophet’s migration to Madeenah), which was a<br />
long time after she had breastfed him. As-Suhaylee also narrated that her manumission came before she<br />
breastfed the Prophet ”.ﷺ [Fatḥ al-Baaree (9/145)]]<br />
22 Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree (5101, 5106, 5107, 5372) and the wording is his and Ṣaḥeeḥ Muslim (1449)<br />
Shaikh al-<strong>Al</strong>baanee said: (The narration in Ṣaḥeeḥ al-Bukhaaree) has the additional wording: (`Urwah said): When<br />
Abu Lahab died, one of his relatives saw him in a dream in a very bad state and asked him: “What have you<br />
encountered?” Abu Lahab said: “I have not found any rest since I left you, except that because of my manumitting<br />
Thuwaibah, I have been given water to drink in this [the space between his thumb and other fingers].”<br />
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