Hazrat Umme Ummaarah (ra) was born in Madinah, around 40 years before hijrah, the migration of the Holy Prophet (sas) from Makkah to Madinah.1 She belonged to a respectable family in the Madinah tribe of Khizraj called Najjaar.2 The Holy Prophet (sas) was very attached to the Najjaar because his (sas) great-grandmother (Hazrat Abdul Muttalib’s mother) belonged to this clan.3
1 Sahaabiyyaat by Niyaz Fathpoori p. 204 Nafees Academy Press, Karachi, 1967.
2 Sahaabiyyaat by Niyaz Fathpoori p. 204 Nafees Academy Press, Karachi, 1967.
3 Tadhkaar-e-Sahaabiyyaat by Talib al-Hashmi, ‘Hazrat Umm-e-Ummaarah (ra)’ p. 390, Published by Al-Badr Publications, Urdu Bazaar, Lahore.