Umm Sharik

Umm Sharik al-Qurashiyya al-Amiriyya of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy ¹. Ibn al-Kalbi traced her as bint Dawdan ibn Awf; another said Amr ibn Amir ibn Rawaha; Ibn Sa'd said her name is Ghaziyya bint Jabir ibn Hakim; al-Waqidi used to say she is of Banu Ma'is ibn Amir ibn Lu'ayy, and others said she was Dawsiyya of al-Azd ¹.

Abu Umar said she was with Abu al-Akr ibn Sami al-Azdi al-Dawsi and bore him Sharik ². It is said her name is Ghuzayla (diminutive), or Ghaziyya with doubled y instead of l ².

Al-Waqidi said: Umm Sharik of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy, of Ma'is, offered herself to the Prophet and he did not accept her, and she never married until she died ¹. Abu Umar said those who claim the Messenger of God married her place it at Mecca; Ibn Hajar comments that this is "strange", for the story of the woman who offered herself happened only at Medina ².

Ibn Hajar mentions that Abu Nu'aym narrated by way of Muhammad ibn Marwan al-Suddi — "one of the abandoned" — and Abu Musa by another chain, from Ibn Abbas, the story of her Islam at Mecca: Islam entered her heart while she was at Mecca and she became Muslim; then she began entering secretly on Quraysh's women, calling them and urging them to Islam, until her affair was exposed to Mecca's people and they seized her, saying: "were it not for your people we would do such-and-such to you; but we shall return you to them." They set her on a camel three days, feeding her nothing and giving her nothing to drink; they made a stop and bound her in the sun, and a bucket of water came to her and she drank till satisfied and poured the rest over her body and clothes. When they saw the water's trace they said to her: "you untied yourself and took our water-skin and drank" — and she told them what had happened ². This account's chain is weak per Ibn Hajar, so it is not relied upon alone for the facts of her Islam.