His ﷺ prophecy concerning the naval expedition by sea to Cyprus, which took place during the caliphate of the Commander of the Believers, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān (may Allah be pleased with him).

Mālik narrated—from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, from Anas ibn Mālik—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to visit Umm Ḥarām bint Milḥān. She would feed him, and she was the wife of ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit. One day he entered her home and she fed him; then she sat down to comb the lice from his hair. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ fell asleep, and when he awoke he was laughing. She said, “O Messenger of Allah, what makes you laugh?” He replied:

“A company from my community was shown to me—warriors in the path of Allah—riding upon the crest of this sea, kings upon thrones, or like kings upon thrones.” Isḥāq was uncertain about the exact wording.

She said, “O Messenger of Allah, pray that Allah will make me one of them.” He prayed for her. Then he laid his head down again, slept, and awoke laughing once more. She asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what makes you laugh?” He said:

“A company from my community was shown to me—warriors in the path of Allah,” just as he had said the first time.

She said, “O Messenger of Allah, pray that Allah will make me one of them.” He answered, “You will be among the first.”

Anas added: Umm Ḥarām bint Milḥān later set sail during the rule of Muʿāwiyah. When she disembarked, her mount threw her and she died.

Al-Bukhārī recorded this ḥadīth through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, and Muslim through Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā, both of them from Mālik (1).

The two Shaykhs also included it in their Ṣaḥīḥ collections through al-Layth (2) and Ḥammād ibn Zayd (3), both from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabbān, from Anas ibn Mālik, from his maternal aunt Umm Ḥarām bint Milḥān. The report continues until the point where he says: She set out with her husband ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit on campaign the very first time the Muslims sailed with Muʿāwiyah—or the first time they sailed under Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān. When they returned from their expedition and reached Syria, an animal was brought for her to mount; it threw her, and she died.

Al-Bukhārī also transmitted it through Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, from Abū Hawālah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Anas with the same content (4).

Abū Dāwūd likewise brought it through the chain of Maʿmar, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from the sister of Umm Sulaym (5).