Umm Ayman Barakah bint Tha’labah رضي الله عنها hailed from Abyssinia. She was the slave of Abdullah and after his death, was inherited by the Prophet ﷺ. After the death of Aminah, she was the primary caretaker of the Prophet ﷺ who would say, “Umm Ayman is my mother after my mother”. The Prophet ﷺ often referred to Umm Ayman as “Ya Umma!” She was the first person to carry him as a baby and of the firsts to accept Islam. He freed her when he came of age and she voluntarily chose to stay with him to serve him.