Both al-Bukhari and Muslim also record, on the authority of Abu Musa, that he said:

“While we were in Yemen, news reached us that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, had set out, so we departed as emigrants to join him—I and two of my brothers, I being the youngest—together with 52 men from my people. We boarded a ship, and it carried us to the Negus in Abyssinia, where we met Jaʿfar ibn Abi Talib and his companions.

Jaʿfar said, ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, has sent us here and ordered us—meaning, to stay—so remain with us.’

“So we stayed with him until we all travelled on together. We met the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, at the time he had just conquered Khaybar, and he allotted us shares from its spoils. He gave no share to anyone absent from the conquest of Khaybar except us—the people of the ship—for he also granted portions to those who had sailed with us, together with Jaʿfar and his companions.

“Later, when some people began saying to us—the passengers of the ship—‘We preceded you in the Hijra,’

“Asmāʾ bint ʿUmays—who had arrived with us—entered upon Ḥafṣa as a visitor. She had emigrated to the Negus among…"