Umm Salama, whose given name was Hind bint Abi Umayya, was a Qurashi woman of the Banu Makhzum clan. Together with her first husband, Abu Salama al-Makhzumi, she migrated both to Abyssinia and to Medina, making her family among the earliest emigrants in Islam. After Abu Salama died from wounds sustained at Uhud, she married the Prophet in 4 AH. Renowned for her intelligence and sound judgment, she is especially remembered for the wise counsel she gave at the Treaty of Hudaybiyya when the Companions hesitated. She transmitted many hadiths and became an important authority in jurisprudence and prophetic biography. She is generally held to be the last of the Prophet's wives to die. According to most sources she died in 62 AH (681 CE) in Medina and was buried in the Jannat al-Baqi cemetery. Her grave, like the others in Baqi, is unmarked following the leveling of 1925-1926.
