Al-Daghūlī said: Her son, Jaʿdah ibn Hubayrah, was appointed by ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as governor of Khurāsān; he was his sister’s son.
It is also related that when Umm Haniʾ was separated from Hubayrah on account of her embracing Islam, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sought her hand in marriage, but she replied, “I am a woman who is occupied with nursing and raising children.” (1) So he let the matter rest.
The hadiths transmitted with her in the chain (musnad) number forty-six; only one of them is directly from her, and it is recorded by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim. (2)
57 – Umm al-Faḍl, Lubābah bint al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥazn ibn Bujayr al-Hilālīyah (ʿ)
A free and eminent lady, the wife of al-ʿAbbās, the Prophet’s uncle ﷺ, and the mother of his six distinguished sons.
Her personal name was Lubābah. She was the sister of the Mother of the Believers Maymūnah, the maternal aunt of Khālid ibn al-Walīd, and the uterine sister of Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays.
Her statement, “So-and-so, the son of Hubayra,” has been identified by some as referring to Jaʿda b. Hubayra. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr rejects this, arguing that Jaʿda was her own son; because he was still young and already deemed Muslim, he would not have needed her formal guarantee of protection. Moreover, Hubayra is not known to have had any other son by a woman other than Umm Hani.
Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar comments that the report most likely contains an omission or a textual alteration: it should read “So-and-so, a cousin of Hubayra” or “a relative of Hubayra.” The word “cousin” may have dropped out, or “relative” may have been mistakenly replaced by “son.” Ibn Hisham, in his Sirah, and others specify that the man to whom she granted protection was al-Harith b. Hisham or ʿAbd Allah b. Abi Rabiʿa—both members of the Makhzum clan—so each could indeed be called a cousin of Hubayra, who was himself a Makhzumi.
(1) muṣbiyya: a woman with small children who require constant care, leaving her unable to fulfil all the marital rights of a husband. Al-Mustadrak (4/53) records the wording: “But I am a muṣbiyya woman, and I fear they might disturb you.”
(2) That is, the hadith cited above.
(*) Musnad Ahmad, 6/338; Tarikh Ibn Maʿin, 738; Tabaqat Khalifa, 338; al-Maʿarif, 121, 137, 156; al-Istiʿab, 4/1907; Usd al-Ghabah, 7/253; Tahdhib al-Kamal, 1696; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 12/449; al-Isabah, 13/112, 266; Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, 495.