What are the names of the Prophet's (peace and blessings be upon him) wet nurses, in chronological order?
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Historians and biographers mention that the Prophet's (peace be upon him) wet nurses, in addition to his mother, were three women: Thuwaybah, the freed slave-woman of Abu Lahab; then Halimah al-Sa'diyah; and then a woman from Banu Sa'd who was a wet nurse to his uncle Hamza.
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