Zaynab bint Khuzaymah (May Allah be pleased with her)

Mother of the Believers, known as Umm al-Masakin for caring for and feeding poor people.

She was Zaynab bint Khuzaymah of Banu Hilal, distinct from Zaynab bint Jahsh.

Umm al-Masakin reflects charity toward poor people, not a literal count of her children.

Her brief time in the Prophet’s household belonged to the Medinan period, and she died during his lifetime.

Reports differ about marriage chronology and duration; a long marriage or later caliphal role cannot be attributed to her.

Early biographies connect her epithet with feeding the poor.

The surviving record is smaller than for several other wives, but care for poor people remains a specific historical feature of her identity.

Her entry in Ibn Abd al-Barr’s Al-Istiab is a principal biographical source.

The Quran does not name her; 33:6 gives the wives’ general status. The marriage passage concerning Zaynab bint Jahsh is not about her.