Asma' bint Yazid ibn al-Sakan

Asma' bint Yazid ibn al-Sakan al-Ansariyya al-Awsiyya al-Ashhaliyya. Ibn al-Sakan said she was Mu'adh ibn Jabal's cousin; her kunya was Umm Salama and she was called "the women's orator" ¹.

She related several hadiths from the Messenger of God; Abu Dawud records from her with a good chain: "do not kill your children in secret, for the ghayl overtakes the horseman and throws him from his mount" ¹. From her relate her nephew's son Mahmud ibn Amr al-Ansari, her client Muhajir ibn Abi Muslim, and Shahr ibn Hawshab — Ibn al-Sakan says he is the most copious transmitter from her ¹.

In some of her hadiths in Ahmad and Ibn Sa'd she pledged to the Prophet among women, and in it he said: "I do not shake women's hands" ¹.

Al-Tirmidhi relates from Shahr ibn Hawshab: Umm Salama al-Ansariyya told us — a woman of the women who pledged the Prophet said: "what is this exemption in which it is not fit for us to disobey you?" — and the Prophet's answer was "no" ¹. Abd ibn Humayd said: Umm Salama al-Ansariyya is Asma' bint Yazid ibn al-Sakan ¹.

Abd ibn Humayd said: Asma' witnessed the Yarmuk, killed nine of the Romans that day with her tent-pole, and lived on a while after ¹.