She later travelled to Damascus to visit her brother. Some people allege that her grave is in Damascus, but this is groundless; her burial place is in Medina. The woman interred in the Bāb al-Ṣaghīr cemetery is in fact Umm Salama, Asmāʾ bint Yazīd al-Anṣāriyyah.

Ibn Saʿd said: Abū Sufyān fathered Ḥanzalah—who was killed on the day of Badr—and Umm Ḥabībah, whose husband, ʿUbayd Allah ibn Jaḥsh ibn Riyāb al-Asadī, died after migrating with her to Abyssinia, having apostatised and embraced Christianity (1).

The Prophet’s ﷺ marriage contract with her was concluded in Abyssinia in the sixth year after the Hijrah, with ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān serving as her guardian—so the report says (2).

According to ʿUthmān al-Akhnasī, Umm Ḥabībah gave birth to Ḥabībah in Mecca before the emigration to Abyssinia (3).

Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir related that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent ʿAmr ibn Umayyah to the Negus to seek Umm Ḥabībah’s hand, and the Negus provided her, from his own wealth, with a dowry of four hundred dinars (4).

ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm and another reporter said: The man who acted as her guardian when the Negus sought her in marriage was Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayyah, and when he brought her to Medina she was in her mid-thirties (5).

Maʿmar transmitted from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from Umm Ḥabībah, that she had been married to ʿUbayd