#1197 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Umm Hakim
bint al-Harith ibn Hisham who was the wife of Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl
became muslim on the day of the conquest of Makka, and her husband
Ikrima fled from Islam as far as the Yemen. Umm Hakim set out after
him until she came to him in the Yemen and she called him to Islam,
and he became muslim. He went to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, in the year of the conquest. When the
Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw him,
he rushed to him in joy and did not bother to put on his cloak until
he had made the pledge with him. They were confirmed in their
marriage.


Malik said, "If a man becomes muslim before his
wife, a separation occurs between them when he presents Islam to her
and she does not become muslim, because Allah, the Blessed, the
Exalted, said in His Book, 'Do not hold fast to the ties of women who
are kafirun.' "