Sawda bint Zam'a
سودة بنت زمعة
c. 674 CE · c. 54 AH
Mother of the Believers; among the early converts who migrated to Abyssinia, and the first woman the Prophet married after the death of Khadija, in Shawwal of the tenth year of prophethood.
Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
WomenFamily, marriage and kinship
Place in the story
- Convert to Islam · c. 612 CETradition
- Companion · c. 612 CETradition
- Family of the Prophet · c. 619 CETradition
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Connections
- Spouse of
- Al-Sakran ibn Amr· Muhammad
- Born in
- Mecca
- Member of
- Quraysh· Ahl al-Bayt· Mothers of the Believers
- Participated in
- The Prophet's marriage to Sawda bint Zam'a· The second migration to Abyssinia· Return of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi Talib· The Hijra
- Revealed in
- Qur'an 4:128
People and things also explored
Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)· Muhammad· Mecca· Aisha bint Abi Bakr· Hafsa bint Umar· Juwayriya bint al-Harith· Khadija bint Khuwaylid· Banu Hashim
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Ibn Sa'd, Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir (Bewley translation, Ta-Ha)
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936)
- Nisa' Hawl al-Rasul: Tarajim wa Qisas — al-Maktaba al-Asriyya
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Sawda bint Zam'a”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sawda-bint-zama/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.