As a teacher Umm al-Darda entered the men's section of the mosque (under any other circumstances a forbidden place for women).
[6] Umm al-Darda has shown the piety, modesty and unpretentiousness both in her daily life and teaching asking no fee for delivering knowledge and living on the basis of charitable gifts.
In Ibn 'Asakir 's Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq, Tarajim al-nisa is written that: I saw Umm al-Darda in Jerusalim sitting among poor women.
Is not that money sadaqah?Umm al-Darda said: it came to us unasked [11] Umm al-Darda was held by Iyas ibn Mu'awiya, an important traditionist of the time and a judge of undisputed ability and merit, to be superior to all the other traditionists of the period, including the celebrated masters of hadith like Hasan al-Basri and Ibn Sirin.
Thus, it could be stated, that there was one women named Umm al-Darda, an eminent hadith and fiqh scholar teaching in the mosques of Damascus and Jerusalim, lived in 7th century and joined the respectful attitude from the side of the caliph 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.