# Salma (ra) and Ubaydullah (ra): A Legacy of Serving the Ahlul Bayt

An episode of [The Firsts with Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1522154152), 4 May 2026, 11 min.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1194665/episodes/19418299-salma-ra-and-ubaydullah-ra-a-legacy-of-serving-the-ahlul-bayt.mp3

She was the midwife in the births of the Prophet ﷺ’s children and grandchildren. This was just one of the unique ways that Salma (ra), a freed-slave and the wife of Abu Rafi al-Qibti (ra), served the Prophet ﷺ’s family. And she raised her own son Ubaydullah ibn Abu Rafi (ra) to shine in Islamic history as a teacher of the Prophet ﷺ’s descendants.

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