Aḥmad said (1): “[Hushaym narrated to us] (2) that Khālid related from Abū ʿUthmān who said:
‘When Ziyād was publicly claimed as a son, I met Abū Bakrah and said, “What is this that you have done? I heard Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ say, ‘My two ears heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declare: ‘Whoever, after accepting Islam, claims for himself a father other than his own—while knowing that he is not his father—Paradise is forbidden to him.’” Abū Bakrah replied, “And I too heard it from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.”’” The two of them (3) recorded this ḥadith from Abū ʿUthmān on their authority.

I say: Abū Bakrah’s given name was Nufayʿ, and his mother’s name was likewise Sumayya.

That same year Muʿāwiyah led the people in the pilgrimage.

In that year as well Muʿāwiyah built a screened prayer enclosure (maqṣūrah) in the central mosque of Syria, and Marwān constructed a similar one in Madinah.

In this year the following passed away:
Umm Ḥabībah (5)—daughter of Abū Sufyān, sister of Muʿāwiyah, Mother of the Believers—whose personal name was Ramlah. She embraced Islam early and migrated with her husband ʿUbayd Allah ibn Jaḥsh (6) to Abyssinia. There her husband converted to Christianity and died, while she remained steadfast upon her faith—may Allah be pleased with her. Her daughter Ḥabībah, the eldest of her children by ʿUbayd Allah ibn Jaḥsh, was born in Abyssinia, though some say in Mecca before the Hijrah.

When her waiting period ended, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī to al-Najāshī, who concluded the marriage to the Prophet on her behalf. Khālid ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ officiated the contract, and the Negus paid a dowry of four hundred dinars for her and dispatched her to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the seventh year AH (1).

When her father came in the Year of the Conquest to reaffirm the pact that had existed between them and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he entered her quarters; she folded up the Prophet’s bedding away from him, whereupon he said, “By Allah, my daughter, I have…"