ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Quṣayy.
Her collected narrations number sixty-five hadiths.
Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim agreed upon two of them, and Muslim alone recorded two others (1).
She was a paternal cousin of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; among his wives none was closer to him in lineage (2), none received a larger dower, and none was wed to him from a more distant land than she.
The marriage contract was concluded for him ﷺ while she was in Abyssinia, where the Negus, acting on his behalf, gave her a dower of 400 dinars and furnished her with other gifts.
She transmitted a number of hadiths.
Those who narrated from her include her two brothers—the Caliph Muʿāwiyah and ʿAnbasah—her nephew ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Sufyān, ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān, Ṣafiyyah bint Shaybah, Zaynab bint Abī Salamah, Shutayr ibn Shakal, Abū al-Malīḥ ʿĀmir al-Hudhalī, and others.
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(1) See Sahih al-Bukhari 9/137, Book of Marriage, chapter “And that you not combine two sisters, except what has already passed,” and 9/432, Book of Divorce, chapter “Kohl for a woman in mourning”; Sahih Muslim no. 1949, Book of Breast-feeding, chapter “The prohibition concerning the step-daughter and a wife’s sister,” no. 1486, Book of Divorce, chapter “The obligation of mourning,” no. 728, Book of Prayer of Travellers, chapter “The merit of the regular sunna prayers before and after the obligatory ones,” and no. 1292, Book of Pilgrimage, chapter “The recommendation to allow the weak—women and others—to leave Muzdalifa for Mina late at night before the crowds.”
(2) In the printed edition the word was mistakenly rendered as “nisa’” (women).