Layla bint al-Khatim

Layla bint al-Khatim ibn Adi, al-Ansariyya al-Awsiyya al-Zafariyya; Abu Ali al-Jiyani added her as a supplement to the Isti'ab, noting that Ibn Abi Khaythama mentioned her ¹.

Ibn Abi Khaythama said: she came up to the Prophet and said: "I am Layla bint al-Khatim; I have come offering myself to you — marry me". He said: "done". She went back to her people, who said: "how bad what you have done — you are a jealous woman and he is a man of many wives; go back and ask him to excuse you". She returned and said: "excuse me", and he said: "done" ¹. In Ibn Sa'd's account from Ibn Abbas — with a chain containing al-Kalbi — she struck his shoulder as he turned his back to the sun, and he said: "who is this? the lioness's food" ¹.

Al-Waqidi related from Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatada: the first of the Ansar to pledge to the Prophet was Umm Sa'd ibn Mu'adh — Kabsha bint Abi Rafi' — and of Banu Zafar, Layla bint al-Khatim ². Ibn Sa'd mentioned that Mas'ud ibn Aws married her in the Jahiliyya and she bore him Amra and Umayra; she was called "the lioness's food", and she was the first woman to pledge to the Prophet, with her two daughters and her daughter's two daughters ².