from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Maʿmar, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from Umm Ḥabībah: that the Negus (al-Najāshī) married her to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq, however, diverged in the wording; he related it from Ibn al-Mubārak as: from Yūnus, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, as a mursal report (1).

Sunqur ibn ʿAbd Allah informed us, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf informed us, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Yūsufī informed us, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥammāmī informed us, Ibn Qāniʿ narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Shādhān narrated to us, Muʿallā ibn Manṣūr narrated to us, Ḥātim—and likewise Abū Muʿāwiyah, whose wording is cited—reported from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from al-Miswar, who said:

“Subayʿah gave birth only a few days after her husband’s death. She then came to the Prophet, ﷺ, seeking permission to remarry, and he granted her permission.” (2)

Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad and ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān also told us: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us, Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us—and I read before Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq—al-Ḥasan ibn Isḥāq of Baghdad informed us, Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allah informed us—and I read before ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim—through Abū al-Yumn al-Kindī; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Khaṭīb informed us. They said:

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zaynabī informed us, Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Warrāq informed us, ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī Dāwūd narrated to us, ʿĪsā ibn Ḥammād narrated to us, al-Layth informed us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from al-Miswar ibn Makhramah:

“Subayʿah al-Aslamiyyah’s husband died while she was pregnant. Only a few nights later she delivered her child. When her postpartum period was over, she received a proposal and sought the Messenger of Allah’s permission to marry. He granted it, and she was accordingly married.”