His Mother's Hunger Strike

Sa'd was about seventeen when he accepted Islam, among the first seven or so to do so. He was from the Banu Zuhrah, the clan of the Prophet's ﷺ mother Aminah, and he was devoted to his own mother, Hamnah bint Sufyan.

When she learned of his faith she swore not to eat or drink until he gave it up. She went days without food, and people brought her water to make her take it. Sa'd told her that if she had a hundred souls and each left her one by one, he would still not leave his religion, and that she should eat if she wished or not eat.

Allah revealed the verse that tells children to be good to their parents even if the parents press them to associate partners with Him: do not obey them in that, yet keep their company in this world with kindness (31:15; Sahih Muslim 1748). She then ate.