Salma bint Harmalah was born in the
Anazzah tribe, it was an Arabian tribe in the Northern Arabian Peninsula (now part of Northern
Saudi Arabia) She was the mother of
Amr ibn al-As, who was born in . His father,
al-As ibn Wa'il, was a wealthy landowner from the
Banu Sahm clan of the
Quraysh tribe of
Mecca. Following the death of al-As in , Amr inherited from him the lucrative estate and vineyards near
Ta'if. Amr's mother was bint Harmalah from the Banu Jallan clan of the
Anaza tribe. Salma bint Harmalah had been taken captive and sold, in succession, to several members of the Quraysh, one of whom was Amr's father. As such, Amr had two maternal half-brothers, Amr ibn Atatha of the
Banu Adi and
Uqba ibn Nafi of the Banu Fihr, and a half-sister from the
Banu Abd Shams. Her famous son, Amr is physically described in the traditional sources as being short with broad shoulders, having a large head with a wide forehead and wide mouth, long arms and a long beard. Salma bint Harmalah died before or shortly after the start of Advent of
Islam. ==References==