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Zaynab bint Muhammad رضي الله عنها
The Road to Madinah
Abu al-'As kept his word. The Prophet ﷺ sent Zayd ibn Harithah and a man of the Ansar to wait for Zaynab in a valley outside Makkah and escort her the rest of the way, and Abu al-'As's brother brought her out of the city.
The historians report that men of Quraysh, stung that the Prophet's daughter should leave openly so soon after Badr, rode after her. One of them, Habbar ibn al-Aswad, frightened her camel so that she fell, and she was pregnant at the time and lost the child. She was brought back to Makkah, and left again some nights later, quietly, to reach Madinah.
Habbar later became a Muslim at the conquest of Makkah, and the Prophet ﷺ accepted him. Zaynab's injury, the historians say, never fully left her.
Zaynab's hijrah cost her a child and her health; Islam reached us through sacrifices most people never hear about.
Whose quiet sacrifices made it possible for you to practise your faith?
- Sunan Abi Dawud 2692 Graded by Al-Albani: Hasan · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Hasan · Shuaib Al Arnaut: Hasan · Zubair Ali Zai: HasanHasan
- Ibn Hisham, al-Sirah al-NabawiyyahHistorical report
- Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-KubraHistorical report
- Ibn Hajar, al-Isabah fi Tamyiz al-SahabahHistorical report
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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