Amina bint Wahb

The father of Prophet Muhammad and the youngest, best-loved son of Abd al-Muttalib. When his father's vow of sacrifice fell on him by lot he was ransomed with a hundred camels, raising the blood-price among the Arabs. He married Amina bint Wahb and died at Medina aged about twenty-five.

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.

Umm Ayman, born Baraka, served three generations of the Prophet Muhammad household as nurse and freedwoman: she suckled the infant Prophet, accompanied his mother Amina to her death, cared for him as an orphan, and later married Zayd ibn Harithah.