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Umm Sa'd bint Sa'd ibn al-Rabi'

أم سعد بنت سعد بن الربيع

Daughter of Sa'd ibn al-Rabi', who was killed at Uhud while she was in the womb; she grew up an orphan in Abu Bakr's care and married Zayd ibn Thabit, bearing him Kharija, Sa'd, Uthman, Sulayman and Umm Zayd; a report on the inheritance of an unborn child is linked to her.

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Roles
Companion
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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Women

Place in the story

  • CompanionTradition

Sunni (transmitted)

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Summary

Umm Sa'd bint Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' al-Ansariyya 1. Ibn Sa'd said: her mother is Khallada bint Anas ibn Sinan of Banu Sa'ida; she bore her months after Sa'd was killed 1.

Her upbringing

Abu Dawud narrates from Dawud ibn al-Husayn, who said: I used to recite to Umm Sa'd bint Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' with her grandson Musa ibn Sa'd — she was an orphan in Abu Bakr al-Siddiq's care 1.

The inheritance

Ibn Sa'd narrates from al-Waqidi that she said: Zayd ibn Thabit came in to me and said: "if you want to speak about your inheritance from your father, speak — for Umar has today granted the unborn child inheritance" — her father had been killed on the day of Uhud while she was yet unborn 1.

Her marriage and children

Zayd ibn Thabit married her, and she bore him Kharija, Sa'd, Uthman, Sulayman and Umm Zayd 1. Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit related from her something of Sa'd ibn al-Rabi's virtues from Abu Bakr 1.

Disagreement on Kharija's mother's name

Ibn Sa'd said in Kharija's entry: his mother is Umm Sa'd Jamila bint Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' — "so he said" — and Ibn Hajar points out that what is in Umm al-Ala''s entry contradicts this 1.

Connections

Child of
Sad ibn al-Rabi al-Ansari
Spouse of
Zayd ibn Thabit

People and things also explored

The AnsarThe Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)The Battle of UhudThe brotherhood of the Muhajirun and AnsarThe distribution of Hunayn spoils at al-Ji'ranaBurial of the Uhud martyrsMuhammadMedina

Sources

  1. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 2002
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islam.museum contributors. “Umm Sa'd bint Sa'd ibn al-Rabi'”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umm-sad-bint-sad-ibn-al-rabi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.

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'The Helpers' — the Muslims of Medina, of Aws and Khazraj, who invited the Prophet to their city, sheltered the refugees, and supplied the community's fighting strength.