WOMEN WHO SERVED THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM).

Abstract

A pivotal figure in the historical upheaval of the Arabian Peninsula's political, social, religious, and economic spheres was the personality of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).  A group of men and women who supported him in his personal and public life welcomed him, and they were there to see the most momentous events of his time—at Mecca, where perseverance and hardship were front and center, or in Medina, where the groundwork was laid.  Their lives and the information passed down from them in the flowery biographies and hadith of the Prophet make all this clear.