Maymuna bint al-Harith رضي الله عنها
The Blessed One — Among the People of the House
"The camel and what is on it is for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."
— Maymuna's response upon hearing of her marriage proposal
🌿 Among the People of the House
Maymuna bint al-Harith (RA) married the Prophet ﷺ in 7 AH, when he was sixty and she was thirty-six. She was related to him not only through marriage but through blood — her sister Umm al-Fadl was the mother of Abdullah ibn Abbas (RA), and her half-sister was Zaynab bint Khuzayma (RA), another wife of the Prophet ﷺ.
When Maymuna heard the good news of the Prophet's ﷺ marriage proposal, she was so overjoyed that she immediately got off her camel and declared: "The camel and what is on it is for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ." They were married in Shawwal, 7 AH, just after the Muslims were permitted to visit Makkah for Umra under the Treaty of Hudaybiyya. The Prophet ﷺ gave her the name Maymuna, meaning 'blessed'.
A Night of Tahajjud: Ibn Abbas (RA) once stayed the night at Maymuna's house. The Prophet ﷺ rose in the middle of the night to pray Tahajjud, and Ibn Abbas joined him, praying eleven rakats together. Among the du'as the Prophet ﷺ made that night was: "O Allah, place light in my heart, light in my tongue, light in my hearing, light on my sight, light behind me, light in front of me, light on my right, light on my left, light above me and light below me."
💚 Good Nature and Lasting Years
Aisha (RA) said of Maymuna: "Among us, she had the most fear of Allah and did the most to maintain ties of kinship." No quarrel or disagreement between her and the other wives has ever been recorded — a rare and beautiful distinction. It was in her room that the Prophet ﷺ first began to feel the effects of his final illness, after which he asked permission to stay in Aisha's room.
After the Prophet's ﷺ death, Maymuna (RA) lived for another forty years, dying at the age of eighty in 51 AH — the last but one of the Prophet's wives to pass away. She asked to be buried at Saraf, the very place where she had married the Prophet ﷺ. At her funeral, Ibn Abbas (RA) instructed the people: "This is the wife of Allah's Messenger ﷺ — be gentle, do not shake her or disturb her."
May Allah be pleased with Maymuna bint al-Harith — truly blessed in name and in nature, beloved by all who knew her.
رضي الله عنها — May Allah be pleased with her