She was called Hinda, and her father’s name was Abu Ommyah, but, according to Ebn Jauzi, and according to some other historians, it was Khodayfah. It is also said that her father was Heshâm B. Almoghyrah B. A’bdullah B. O’mar B. Mahdûm B. Yaqytz B. Aqrah B. Ka’b B. Lowâ B. Ghâleb [so that her pedigree also was connected with that of Muhammad]. Barrah, the daughter of A’bd-ul-Muttalleb, who was the mother of Omm Solmah, having been the paternal aunt of the prophet, she was related to him on that side also. At first, Omm Solmah—m. A. r. h. —was the wife of Abu Solmah A’bdullah B. A’bdu-l-asad B. A’bdu-l-leyl, by whom she had four children, namely: Zaynab, Solmah, O’mar and Durrah. Both she and her husband had been refugees to Abyssinia, and when they had returned from that country to Madinah, her husband received a wound in the battle of Ohod, from which he died some time afterwards; whereon the prince of beings married her in the month Showâl during the fourth year after the exile. According to a certain tradition, her dowry was estimated at [only] four dirhems, but she was highly respected by the seal of prophets. Her death took place during the reign of Yazid, the s. of Moa’awiah, in the sixty-first year after the exile [A.D. 680]. Abu Harirah officiated in the prayers recited over her body, and she was interred in the Baqyi’ cemetery. She had attained the age of sixty-four years, and died the last of all the pure spouses of the prince of existences.