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119 Umayyah should be destroyed. For this reason, I wish to go inside in order to arrange for their safekeeping. ” However, these wretched people replied to the blessed wife of the Holy Prophet sa , “You are lying. ” The rebels then attacked her mule and cut the straps of its packsaddle. The saddle fell to one side. Hadrat Ummi H ab i bah ra was on the verge of falling off and being martyred under the feet of the rebels, but a few people of Madinah, who were close by, dashed to her aid and escorted her home. 100 AN EXAMPLE OF THE RELIGIOUS INDIGNATION OF H A D RAT UMMI H AB I BAH RA This was the treatment which they meted out to the blessed wife of the Holy Prophet sa. Hadrat Ummi H ab i bah ra possessed such profound loyalty and love for the Holy Prophet sa that after a separation of about fifteen to sixteen years, when her father, who was the chief of Arabia and held the position of a king in Makkah came to Madinah on a special political mission and came to meet her, she pulled away the bedding of the Holy Prophet sa from beneath him. This was because she could not bear to see the pure cloth of the Messenger of Allah touch the impure body of an idolater. It is surprising that in the absence of Muhammad sa , the Messenger of Allah, Hadrat Ummi H ab i bah ra safeguarded the sanctity of even his cloth, 101 whereas these rebels did not even show veneration to the revered 100. T a r i khu t-T abar i , vol. 5, p. 177, Dhikrul-Khabari ‘ An Qatlih i Wa Kaifa Qutila, Published by D a rul-Fikr, Beirut, 2002 edition 101. I sa batu F i Tam i zi s-S a ha bah, vol. 8, p. 142, Ramlah Bintu Ab i Sufy a n, D a rul-Kutubil- ‘ Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2005 edition [Publishers]