Abu Salamah al-Makhzumi

Abū Salamah رضي الله عنه, whose full name was ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Asad al-Makhzūmī, was among the first fifteen to emigrate to Abyssinia. He traveled with his wife Umm Salamah. He was the first of the Abyssinian emigrants to die there, leaving his wife widowed in a foreign land, separated from her family in Makkah, without support.

Umm Salamah described her situation as complete isolation: cut off from Makkah, widowed in Abyssinia, alone. Out of mercy to her, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم later sent her a proposal of marriage, and she became one of the Mothers of the Believers (Ummahāt al-Muʾminīn).