Halima al-Sa'diyya

Amina bint Wahb al-Zuhriyya was the mother of Prophet Muhammad. Married to Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and widowed almost at once, she bore her son at Mecca, saw him fostered among the Banu Sa'd and returned to her, and died at al-Abwa when he was six, leaving him twice orphaned.

A Bedouin woman of the Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr who came to Mecca in a famine year seeking an infant to nurse. She took the orphaned Muhammad only because no other woman would, raised him in the desert, and the foster-tie she made was invoked generations later when her tribe were captives at Hunayn.