Relationship With Muhammad
Wet nurses came to the Mecca of the desert to feed children. They preferred that the fathers of the children they fed were still alive. Although Muhammad's father was dead, Halimah took him just 8 days after he was born. He grew up in Hudaybiyah then in Madinah before returning him to his mother, Aminah bint Wahb, just after he was two. Amina then asked Halimah to keep Muhammad for some more time for him to be tougher.
Years after Muhammad's mother died and he got married to Khadijah, Halimah came to him complaining of her poverty. He asked Khadijah to give her 40 sheep. After Muhammad got his first revelation, Halimah and her husband came to the Islamic prophet and embraced Islam. When she came to Muhammad on the day of Hunayn, he took off his robe and put it on the ground for her to sit.
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