The two men then set out for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. On the way they encountered two men from Banū ʿĀmir, asked them who they were, and when the men identified themselves they killed them and took whatever possessions they had. They reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and informed him of what had happened to their companions and to the two ʿĀmiri men, handing over the property they had seized. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ recognized two cloaks he had earlier given those men and said, “They were bound to us by a treaty.” He therefore paid their clan the blood money due for two free Muslims.

After ʿĀmir ibn Mālik’s death, Ḥassān composed verses urging his son Rabīʿah to avenge him, beginning:

O sons of Umm al-Banīn, has it not unsettled you…

—and he recited the rest of the poem. Rabīʿah asked, “Would Ḥassān be satisfied if I dealt ʿĀmir a single thrust?” He was told yes, so he charged at him, stabbed him, yet ʿĀmir survived the wound.

In that same year the Mother of the Believers Zaynab bint Khuzaymah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Hilāl ibn ʿĀmir ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah—of the Qays-Hawāzin line—may Allah be pleased with her, passed away. She was known as “Mother of the Poor” because of her generosity toward them. Her first husband was al-Tufayl ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Muṭṭalib ibn ʿAbd Manāf, who divorced her; she then married his brother ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith, who was martyred at Badr. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ married her in Ramadan of year three, and, according to the soundest report, she remained with him eight months. Some say her death occurred at the end of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir. The Prophet ﷺ led her funeral prayer and buried her in al-Baqīʿ. She was about thirty years old.

That same year the Prophet ﷺ also married Umm Salamah, the Mother of the Believers Hind bint Abī Umayyah—whose personal name was Hudhayfah, though some say Suhayl, and who was nicknamed Zād al-Rākib—the daughter of al-Mughīrah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm of the Qurashī clan of Makhzūm. She had previously been married to the Prophet’s cousin Abū Salamah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Asad ibn Hilāl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar ibn Makhzūm, whose mother was Barrah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. He had emigrated with her to Abyssinia, where she bore him children.