On the day of the conquest of Mecca, the Prophet ﷺ prayed eight rakʿas in her house at the time of duha (al-Bukhari 1176). She had granted protection to a man her brother wanted to kill, and the Prophet ﷺ told her: “We protect whomever you have protected, O Umm Haniʾ” (al-Bukhari 357).
Umm Haniʾ is a kunya, “the mother of Haniʾ” (haniʾ, “one who gives gladly, a servant”), that of Fakhita bint Abi Talib, cousin of the Prophet ﷺ and sister of ʿAli. In Turkey it has become a name in its own right, Ümmühan or Ümmühani, given in her memory.
In Arabic
أُمّ هَانِئام هانئ
Transliteration
Umm Hāniʾ
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Is Umm Hani in the Quran?
No: the name Umm Hani does not appear in the Quran. A name can be beautiful and permissible without coming from the Quran.
In the hadiths
AuthenticMuttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim)Sahih al-Bukhari 357
