Asma · a Light

She tore her belt in two and gained a name

When the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr hid in the cave of Thawr in 622, Abu Bakr's daughter Asma carried food out to them. She had nothing to tie the bundle with, so she cut her waist belt in two and used one half for the food and the other for the waterskin. From that she was called Dhat al-Nitaqayn, the woman of the two belts. She was pregnant during the migration and gave birth at Quba on arrival. Seventy years later, blind and about a hundred years old, she is reported to have told her son Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, besieged in Makkah and asking whether to surrender, that a sheep does not suffer from being skinned once it has been slaughtered.

Asma bint Abi Bakr · died 73 AH, 692 CE