Halima bint Abi Dhu'ayb al-Sa'diyya (Arabic: حليمة بنت أبي ذؤيب السعدية) was the foster-mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
In Mecca, all those looking for foster children rejected taking care of the half-orphan Muhammad because they feared not getting paid since his father was dead.
So she told her husband al-Harith: "By God, I do not like the idea of returning with my friends without a child; I will go and take that orphan."
When Halimah and Al-Harith asked Muhammad what happened, he said: "Two men came and opened my chest and took a portion of it".
Years later, after Muhammad married Khadijah, Halimah went to him in Mecca and complained about the hardships of the times.