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 "label": {
  "ar": "أم سليم بنت ملحان",
  "en": "Umm Sulaym bint Milhan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "أم أنس خادم النبي، اشتهرت بكنيتها واختُلف في اسمها؛ أسلمت مع السابقين من الأنصار فغضب زوجها الأول مالك وخرج إلى الشام ومات بها، وخطبها أبو طلحة قبل أن يسلم فكان صداقها إسلامه، وغزت مع النبي واتخذت خنجراً يوم حنين.",
  "en": "The mother of Anas, the Prophet's servant, known by her kunya with her name disputed; she embraced Islam among the earliest of the Ansar, her first husband Malik left for Syria angry and died there, Abu Talha proposed to her before he was Muslim and his Islam became her dower; she campaigned with the Prophet and carried a dagger at Hunayn."
 },
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 ],
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  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women"
 ],
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أم سليم بنت ملحان بنت خالد بن زيد بن حرام بن جندب الأنصارية"
   },
   {
    "kind": "kunya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "أم سليم"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "companion",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "مذكور في الإصابة ترجمة رقم 12117 (ص 2006).",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-hajar-isaba"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "ذُكر في كتب الصحابة؛ يُسجَّل ضمن الإطار السني للمتحف (docs/scope.md)."
   }
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة، ترجمة 12117، ص 2006",
   "generated_by": "Claude (maintainer session)",
   "model": "claude-sonnet-5-5",
   "run": "isaba-batch-3"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hajar-isaba",
   "source/nisa-hawl-alrasul"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Sonnet 5.5; read from al-Isaba (column-aware OCR, page 2006, entry 12117)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "[[person/umm-sulaym|أم سليم]] بنت ملحان الأنصارية، أم [[person/anas-ibn-malik|أنس]] خادم [[person/muhammad|رسول الله]]، اشتهرت بكنيتها {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2006}. واختُلف في اسمها فقيل: سهلة، وقيل: رميلة، وقيل: رميثة، وقيل: مليكة، وقيل: الغميصاء أو الرميصاء {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2006}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "إسلامها وزواجها",
     "markdown": "تزوجت مالك بن النضر في الجاهلية فولدت أنساً، وأسلمت مع السابقين من الأنصار فغضب مالك وخرج إلى الشام فمات بها، فتزوجت بعده [[person/abu-talha-al-ansari|أبا طلحة]] {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2006}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "صداقها الإسلام",
     "markdown": "يروي أحمد عن أنس أن أبا طلحة خطب أم سليم قبل أن يسلم، فقالت: «يا أبا طلحة، ألست تعلم أن إلهك الذي تعبد نبت من الأرض؟ ... أفلا تستحي تعبد شجرة؟ إن أسلمت فإني لا أريد منك صداقاً غيره»، فجاء فشهد الشهادتين فقالت لأنس: «زوّج أبا طلحة» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2006}. وفي رواية ابن سعد: «وكان صداقها الإسلام» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "النبي في بيتها",
     "markdown": "روى أنس أن النبي كان يزور أم سليم فتتحفه بالشيء تصنعه له، وأنه لم يكن يدخل بيتاً غير بيت أم سليم إلا على أزواجه، فقيل له، فقال: «إني أرحمها، قُتل أخوها وأبوها معي» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}. ويعلق ابن حجر بأن دخوله بيت أم حرام وأختها لأنهما كانتا في دار واحدة، وأنها كانت تغزو مع رسول الله {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخنجر يوم حنين",
     "markdown": "أخرج ابن سعد بسند صحيح أن أم سليم اتخذت خنجراً يوم حنين، فقال أبو طلحة: «يا رسول الله، هذه أم سليم معها خنجر»، فقالت: «اتخذته إن دنا مني أحد من المشركين بقرت بطنه» {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاة ولدها",
     "markdown": "في الصحيح أن ابناً لها من أبي طلحة مات، فقالت لأهل البيت ألا يخبروا أبا طلحة قبلها، فلما جاء وسأل قالت: «هو أسكن ما كان»، فظن أنه عوفي، ثم تزينت له فنام معها، فلما أصبحت قالت: «احتسب ولدك»، فذكر ذلك للنبي فقال: «بارك الله لكما في ليلتكما»، فجاءت بعبد الله بن أبي طلحة، فرُزق أولاداً قرأ القرآن منهم عشرة كاملين {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خدمة أنس",
     "markdown": "في الصحيح أن أم سليم لما قدم النبي قالت: «يا رسول الله، هذا أنس يخدمك»، وكان ابن عشر سنين، فخدم النبي منذ قدم المدينة حتى مات {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الرواية",
     "markdown": "روت عن النبي عدة أحاديث، وروى عنها ابنها أنس وابن عباس وزيد بن ثابت وأبو سلمة بن عبد الرحمن {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}. ويذكر ابن حجر أن أبا عمر أخذ نسبها من ابن السكن، لكنه جعل اسم أمها مليكة بينما في كتاب ابن السكن أنيقة، ونبه عليه ابن فتحون {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p.2007}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/umm-sulaym",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/umm-sulaym|Umm Sulaym]] bint Milhan al-Ansariyya, mother of [[person/anas-ibn-malik|Anas]], servant of [[person/muhammad|the Messenger of God]]; she was famous by her kunya {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2006}. Her name is disputed: said to be Suhayla, Rumayla, Rumaytha, Malika, or al-Ghumaysa' / al-Rumaysa' {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2006}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Her Islam and marriage",
     "markdown": "In the Jahiliyya she married Malik ibn al-Nadr and bore Anas; she became Muslim with the Ansar's forerunners, Malik grew angry and went out to Syria and died there, and she married [[person/abu-talha-al-ansari|Abu Talha]] after him {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2006}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Her dower: Islam",
     "markdown": "Ahmad relates from Anas that Abu Talha proposed to Umm Sulaym before he was Muslim, and she said: \"Abu Talha, do you not know your god you worship grows from the earth? ... are you not ashamed to worship a tree? If you become Muslim, I want no dower from you but it\" — he came and bore the two testimonies, and she said to Anas: \"marry Abu Talha\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2006}. In Ibn Sa'd's account: \"her dower was Islam\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Prophet in her house",
     "markdown": "Anas relates that the Prophet used to visit Umm Sulaym and she would offer him what she made for him; he entered no house but Umm Sulaym's apart from his wives' — when it was remarked on he said: \"I have mercy on her: her brother and her father were killed with me\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}. Ibn Hajar comments that his entering Umm Haram's house too is because the two sisters lived in one dwelling, and that she used to campaign with the Messenger of God {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The dagger on the day of Hunayn",
     "markdown": "Ibn Sa'd narrates with a sound chain that Umm Sulaym took a dagger on the day of Hunayn; Abu Talha said: \"Messenger of God, here is Umm Sulaym with a dagger\" — she said: \"I took it so that if one of the polytheists came near me I would rip his belly\" {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Her son's death",
     "markdown": "In the Sahih: a son of hers by Abu Talha died, and she told the household not to inform Abu Talha before her; when he came and asked she said \"he is the calmest he has been\" — he thought the boy had recovered; then she adorned herself for him and he slept with her. In the morning she said: \"count your son among God's rewards\" — he told the Prophet, who said: \"may God bless you two in your night\" — and she bore Abdullah ibn Abi Talha, and was granted children of whom ten complete Qur'an-reciters read the Qur'an {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Anas's service",
     "markdown": "In the Sahih: when the Prophet arrived, Umm Sulaym said: \"Messenger of God, here is Anas to serve you\" — he was ten years old — and he served the Prophet from his arrival at Medina until he died {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Narration",
     "markdown": "She related several hadiths from the Prophet; from her related her son Anas, Ibn Abbas, Zayd ibn Thabit and Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}. Ibn Hajar mentions that Abu Umar took her lineage from Ibn al-Sakan but gave her mother's name as Malika, while Ibn al-Sakan's book has Aniqa — Ibn Fathun pointed this out {cite:ibn-hajar-isaba p. 2007}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/umm-sulaym",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
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   "note": "زوجها الأول مالك بن النضر والد أنس؛ اختلف معها حين أسلمت وخرج إلى الشام فمات بها (نساء حول الرسول ص252).",
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