Zainab Bint ‘Umar Bin Kindi (Arabic: زينب بنت عمر بن كندي) (died 699 Hijri / c. 1300 CE) was a female muhaddith in 13th century Damascus and Baalbek.
[citation needed] She studied Kitab al-Tawhid of Ibn Khuzaymah and had sanads[broken anchor] going back to him.
Zainab Bint ‘Umar Bin Kindi died on the 29th of Jumada Al-Aakhirah at the Baalbek citadel at the age of ninety.
[4] Al-Dhahabi writes about her that she was "a righteous woman, generous, who possessed piety and (gave) charity.
He notes that his father, his maternal uncle, and many other people in Baalbek received the tradition from her ("Abul-Hussain Al-Yunini and his children and relatives, Ibn Abil-Fath and his two sons, Al-Mizzi and his elder son, Al-Birzali, Ibn-al-Nabulusi, Abu Bakr al-Rahbi, Ibn-al-Muhandis, Ahmed Ibn-al-Duraybi").