Umm Ziyad al-Ashja'iyya
أم زياد الأشجعية
A Companion of Ashja' who went out with the Prophet on the Khaybar campaign with five other women; the Prophet asked 'With whose leave did you come out?' and they answered that they had come to treat the wounded, hand out arrows and give out barley drink, and dates were apportioned to them.
At a glance
- Roles
- Companion
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
- 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
Going out to Khaybar
She went out with the Prophet on the Khaybar campaign, the sixth of six women; it reached the Prophet and he sent for them and said: "by whose leave did you women go out?" — they saw anger in his face — they said: "we went out with medicine to treat the wounded, handing arrows and pouring sawiq" — and in the hadith he allotted them shares of the dates. Abu Dawud, al-Nasa'i and Ibn Abi Asim narrate it 1.
Connections
- Participated in
- The Conquest of Khaybar
People and things also explored
Safiyya bint Huyayy· Umm Muni' (Asma bint Amr)· The Incident of the Poisoned Sheep at Khaybar· The Treaty of Hudaybiyya· The Jewish communities of Khaybar· The Prophetic Era· Abu Hurayra· Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani
Sources
- al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, p. 2000
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Umm Ziyad al-Ashja'iyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/umm-ziyad-al-ashjaiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.