Hamna bint Jahsh
حمنة بنت جحش
Sister of Zaynab bint Jahsh, wife of Mus'ab ibn Umayr, who was killed at Uhud, and then of Talha ibn Ubaydullah; she was at Uhud giving water to the thirsty and tending the wounded, and she narrated the hadith on abnormal bleeding.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Tradition
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Place in the story
- CompanionTradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Her marriage and children
She was wife of Mus'ab ibn Umayr, who was killed at Uhud leaving her; Talha ibn Ubaydullah then married her and she bore him Muhammad and Imran — her mother and her sister Zaynab's being Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib 1.
The day of Uhud
The istihada hadith
Abu Dawud and al-Tirmidhi relate the istihada hadith from Hamna. Abu Ishaq al-Shaybani and Abu Bishr differed on the story's heroine's name; some reconcile the accounts by saying both women suffered istihada, while al-Waqidi denied Hamna ever had it at all 1.
Of her affairs
Ibn Sa'd said the Prophet fed her thirty wasqs from Khaybar; she is the mother of Muhammad ibn Talha, known as al-Sajjad 1.
Connections
- Spouse of
- Mus'ab ibn UmayrTalha ibn Ubaydullah
- Child of
- Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
- Participated in
- The Battle of UhudThe Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk)
- Sibling of
- Zaynab bint Jahsh
People and things also explored
MuhammadDefense of the Prophet at UhudQurayshAisha bint Abi BakrThe Battle of BadrBattle over the Quraysh standard at UhudBurial of the Uhud martyrsUhud war council and Muslim mobilization
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 1849
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islam.museum contributors. “Hamna bint Jahsh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/hamna-bint-jahsh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.