Nusaybah · a Light

She went to Uhud with a waterskin and ended up fighting

Nusaybah bint Ka'b of the Banu Najjar, known as Umm Ammarah, went out to Uhud in 625 to carry water and tend the wounded. When the Muslim lines broke and the Prophet ﷺ was exposed, she took up a sword and a bow and stood among the small group that held their ground, taking a deep wound to the shoulder that took a year to heal. Her husband and her sons were beside her. Eight years later, at Yamama in 633, she fought again in her sixties and lost a hand. The early biographers Ibn Sa'd and Ibn Hisham name her and record him saying that wherever he turned at Uhud, right or left, he saw her defending him.

Nusaybah bint Ka'b, Umm Ammarah · Uhud, 625