Umm Habiba Ramla bint Abu Sufyan was born between 589 and 594 CE in Mecca, Hejaz or present day Saudi Arabian to Abu Sufyan and Safiyyah bint Abi al-‘As. At this time, her father was the chief of the Umayya clan and the leader of the Quarasyh tribe, which ruled over Mecca, and the one who would later lead the fight against her future husband, the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Prior to her marriage to the Prophet, Umm Habiba Ramla married Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh & together they became some of the first converts to Islam. Both persecuted at the hands of the Quarasyh because of their conversion, they fled to Abyssinia in 616. Here, she gave birth to their daughter and ultimately separated from her husband as a result of his conversion to Christianity, which she refused to follow. After the end of her Iddah (waiting period for widows), Muhammad (SAW) sent her a proposal of marriage, which she accepted. Although the Prophet was not present, the marriage ceremony took place in Abyssinia, where the Negus (king) of Abyssinia read the khutba. After the ceremony, Ramla, along with the remaining Muslim immigrants, were sent back to Arabia, traveling to Medina, where they settled down with the Muslim refugees from Mecca. One account tells of a visit from her father Abu Sufyan to Medina, where he traveled to visit his daughter. He made to sit on the carpet in the home and Ramla folded it up so he could not sit on it. My dear daughter,' he said, 'I hardly know if you think that the carpet is too good for me or that I am too good for the carpet!' She replied: 'It is the apostle’s carpet and you are an unclean polytheist. I do not want you to sit on the apostle’s carpet.' She died in 45 AH (664 CE) while her brother Muawiyah I was king & was buried in Jannat al-Balqi alongside Muhammad’s (SAW) other wives. As a wife of the Prophet, she is known a as a Mother of the Believers and hadith literature contains 65 hadiths narrated by Ramla.