A wife of the Prophet and a transmitter of reports about worship.
Family and marriage
Maymunah bint al-Harith was the last woman whom Prophet Muhammad married, according to the standard biographical account. Her marriage is associated with the journey for the compensatory umrah and the place called Sarif near Makkah. The source discusses differences in reports about the circumstances of the marriage.
The transmission of daily practice
Maymunah transmitted hadith about the Prophet’s life. Her nephew Ibn Abbas sometimes stayed in her home to observe the Prophet’s night worship, and these observations became part of later hadith collections. Her biography helps show how the household was also a setting in which religious practice was learned and remembered. The TDV article supplies a bibliography for studying the reports individually.
Sources and further reading
M. Yaşar Kandemir — Meymûne, TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Turkish)