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 "id": "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "halima-al-sadiyya",
 "label": {
  "en": "Halima al-Sa'diyya",
  "ar": "حليمة السعدية"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A Bedouin woman of Banu Sa'd who nursed the infant Muhammad in the desert for several years, as was the Meccan custom, and is remembered in tradition as his foster-mother.",
  "ar": "امرأة بدوية من بني سعد أرضعت النبي محمد رضيعًا في البادية سنوات عدة كما كانت عادة أهل مكة، وتُذكر في التقليد بأنها مرضعته."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 539.9993839709234,
  "latest": 699.9999315522932
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "054X",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Unknown; she was a young mother when she nursed the Prophet around 570–576 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "06XX",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "century",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Tradition reports she met the Prophet again in later life; the year of her death is not recorded.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "حليمة بنت أبي ذؤيب السعدية"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "054X",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "decade",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Unknown; she was a young mother when she nursed the Prophet around 570–576 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "06XX",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "century",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Tradition reports she met the Prophet again in later life; the year of her death is not recorded.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Counted among the Companions in the biographical tradition for having met the Prophet after his mission; she is chiefly remembered as his foster-mother before it.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "arabian-polytheism",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "end": {
     "edtf": "062X"
    }
   },
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Tradition reports she embraced Islam; the timing is not recorded precisely."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/ibn-ishaq-guillaume"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "حليمة امرأة بدوية من بني سعد أرضعت الرضيع محمدًا في البادية، كما كانت بيوت مكة تفعل بأولادها. ويذكرها التراث أمَّ النبي من الرضاعة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "كان من عادة أهل قريش أن يبعثوا مواليدهم إلى البادية لينشؤوا أقوياء بين القبائل. ونحو سنة 570م أخذت حليمة من بني سعد بن بكر، بطن من [[group/hawazin|هوازن]]، اليتيم محمدًا إلى خبائها، فلبث عند أهلها سنين {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nوتروي السيرة لقاءات لاحقة بينها وبين النبي، منها زيارة له بمكة، وتعدّها الرواية ممن أسلم {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. أما تفاصيل آخر حياتها ووفاتها فقليلة الحفظ."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "من باب حليمة يلمس المعرض مؤسسة حقيقية: الاسترضاع في الجاهلية، يصنع رباطًا مثل رباط النسب — فقد سمّى النبي أهلها أهله."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "في ذلك الزمان كانت أسر المدينة ترسل أطفالها الرضّع إلى أهل البادية ليكبروا صحّةً. وكانت حليمة أم محمد في البادية، فأحبها عمره كله."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Halima was a Bedouin woman of Banu Sa'd who nursed the infant Muhammad in the desert, as wealthier Meccan families arranged for their children. Tradition remembers her as the Prophet's foster-mother."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "It was the custom of Quraysh families to send newborns into the desert to grow strong among the tribes. Around 570 CE Halima of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr, a clan of [[group/hawazin]], took the orphan Muhammad into her tent, and he remained with her family for several years {cite:ibn-ishaq-guillaume}.\n\nThe sira reports her later meetings with the Prophet — including a visit in Mecca, and tradition counts her among those who embraced Islam {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. The details of her later life and death are thinly recorded."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "Through Halima, the museum's story touches a real institution: fosterage in pre-Islamic Arabia, which created bonds as binding as blood — the Prophet called her family his own."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "In those days, city families sent their babies to live with desert families to grow up healthy. Muhammad's desert mother was Halima, and he loved her all his life."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/umm-ayman",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/umm-salama",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as",
  "person/salman-al-farisi",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/uthman-ibn-affan",
  "person/abu-talib",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/abu-hurayra",
  "person/al-walid-ibn-al-mughira"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/hawazin",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr is a clan of the Hawazin confederacy.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "start": {
    "edtf": "062X"
   },
   "note": "Later reports place her in Mecca and Medina.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/shaqq-al-sadr",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "ردّته إلى أمه خشية عليه",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/year-of-the-elephant-and-birth",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "مرضعته في بني سعد بن بكر",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/muhammad",
  "person/abd-al-muttalib",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "group/early-muslims",
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "event/marriage-to-khadija",
  "event/marriage-to-sawda",
  "event/year-of-the-elephant-and-birth"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}