Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 39
12 oRPHAN’S WET NURSE I t was a custom in Arabia that women from the countryside came to cities every six months and took home with them infants of the nobility to nurse. Thus it provided them with a source of livelihood since the parents of these children paid handsome wages for their services. And the parents benefited by the fact that their little children were raised in fresh and open air that made them fit, healthy and clever. So, in accordance with this custom, womenfolk of the tribe of Ban u Sa‘d came to Makkah, at the time of the birth of the Holy Prophet sa , seeking infants of nobility. Each woman quickly took possession of children of