Rufaidah bint Sa’ad, also known as Rufaida Al-Aslamia or Rufayda al-Aslamiyyah, who was born in 620 and lived at the time of Muhammed. She hailed from the Bani Aslam tribe in Medina and was among the first people in Medina to accept Islam.
– Rufaidah obtained training/knowledge in medicine from her father, a physician, whom she assisted regularly. At the time when Muhammed’s early followers were engaged in war, she led a group of volunteer nurses to the battlefield to treat and care for the injured and dying.
– After the Muslim state was established in Medina, she was given permission by Muhammed to set up a tent outside the mosque to treat the ill and to train more Muslim women and girls as nurses.
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