Great Women of Islam, Who Were Given the Good News of Paradise

Great Women of Islam, Who Were Given the Good News of Paradise is a book on the lives of the women Companions promised Paradise, by Mahmood Ahmad Ghadanfar, translated into English by Jamila Muhammad Qawi, revised by Sheikh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, edited by Muhammad Ayub Sapra and Muhammad Farooq, and published by Darussalam, Riyadh. ¹

The publisher's note says the book presents the lives of the women Companions given the good news of Paradise and highlights their service in war — treating and giving water to the wounded — and in spreading Islam. ^{2 3}

It opens with a chapter on the women Companions' achievements, then gives the Mothers of the Believers — Khadija, Sawda, A'isha, Hafsa, Zaynab bint Khuzayma (may God be pleased with her), Umm Salama, Zaynab bint Jahsh (may God be pleased with her), Juwayriya, Safiyya, Umm Habiba and Maymuna — followed by Fatima bint Muhammad, Fatima bint Asad, Umm Ruman, Sumayya, Umm Haram bint Milhan (may God be pleased with her), Asma' bint Abi Bakr, Umm Sulaym, Umm Ammara Nusayba, al-Rubayyi' bint Mu'awwidh, al-Furay'a bint Malik, Umm Hisham bint Haritha (may God be pleased with her), Asma' bint Yazid, Umm Sa'd Kabsha bint Rafi', Umm al-Mundhir Salma bint Qays (may God be pleased with him), Umm Waraqa and Umm Ayman. ^{4 5} Each chapter opens with the hadith of good news that places its subject among those promised Paradise, such as the hadith on the people of the Pledge of Ridwan in the chapters on al-Furay'a, Umm Hisham and Umm al-Mundhir. ^{6 7 8}

A popular book without notes, telling the lives in a hortatory style and digressing into the men of each woman's family — the chapter on Umm Sa'd, for example, retells how Sa'd ibn Mu'adh and Usayd ibn Hudayr (may God be pleased with him) accepted Islam through Mus'ab ibn Umayr. ^{9 10 11}

• The copy used has no printing date; pages are PDF pages, printed = PDF + 5. The Arabic title on the card is a descriptive rendering by the museum.