Sawdah bint Zamah (May Allah be pleased with her)

A wife of Muhammad after Khadijah’s death, among early Muslim women associated with migration.

Sawdah was a Qurashi woman, daughter of Zamah, previously married to Sakran ibn Amr.

Biographical accounts record their migration to Abyssinia. After widowhood she joined the Prophet’s household.

She married Muhammad in Makkah after Khadijah’s death and later belonged to his Medinan household.

Biographical works differ on her death year; an exact lifespan is not inferred from uncertain dates.

She was a Mother of the Believers and a co-wife of Aishah. Bukhari records her giving her allotted turn to Aishah.

The Prophet then assigned Aishah both turns; this concerns a household arrangement and does not remove Sawdah’s status as a wife.

Bukhari 5212 names her directly; Al-Ahzab 33:6 establishes the wives’ general status.

Her migration and earlier marriage are preserved in biography rather than in that hadith’s wording.