It is narrated from Sayyiduna Halah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was resting. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) woke up, held Halah to his chest and said (affectionately): "Halah! Halah! Halah!" It was as though he (peace and blessings be upon him) was greatly pleased because of his kinship with Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her). Mention of Abdullah bin Zam'ah bin al-Aswad.

It is narrated from Mus'ab bin Abdullah al-Zubayri that Abdullah bin Zam'ah bin al-Aswad bin al-Muttalib bin Asad bin Abd al-Uzza bin Qusayy (this is his lineage); his mother was Qaribah bint Abi Umayyah bin Abdullah bin Umar bin Makhzum, and his maternal grandmother was Atikah bint al-Muttalib.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Zam'ah bin al-Aswad bin al-Muttalib bin Asad (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: When the illness of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (in his final illness) grew severe, and I was with him (peace and blessings be upon him) along with a group of Muslims, Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) called the adhan for the prayer. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Tell someone to lead the people in prayer." I went out, and there was Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), while Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was not present (at that time). I said: O Umar, stand up and lead the people in prayer. He stood up, and when he said the takbir, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) heard his voice, for Umar was a man with a loud voice. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Where is Abu Bakr? Allah and the Muslims do not approve of this (situation)." Then a message was sent to Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), and he came after Umar had already led that prayer, and then he led the people in prayer. Abdullah bin Zam'ah relates that Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me: Woe to you! O Ibn Zam'ah, what have you done to me? By Allah, when you told me (to lead the prayer), I thought only that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had ordered you to do so; had it not been for that thought, I would never have led the prayer. I replied: By Allah, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not order me, but when I did not find Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) there, I considered you the most deserving of those present to lead the people in prayer. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Ahmad bin Ya'qub al-Thaqafi; he said: Musa bin Zakariyya narrated to us; he said that Khalifah bin Khayyat said: The name of Abu Umamah is Sudayy bin Ajlan bin Wahb bin Arib bin Wahb bin Rabah bin al-Harith bin Wahb bin Ma'n bin Malik bin A'sur bin Sa'd bin Qays Aylan bin Mudar; he settled in Syria. Khalifah said: His lineage was stated by Abd al-Malik bin Qurayb al-Asma'i, who said: Bahilah is in fact the wife of Ma'n bin Malik bin A'sur bin Sa'd bin Qays Aylan; her children are attributed to her, and she is Bahilah bint Sa'd al-Ashirah bin Malik bin Udad bin Yashjub bin Ya'rub bin Qahtan. Shabab bin Khayyat said: Abu Umamah died in the year 86 AH.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me to my people to call them to Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and to present to them the laws of Islam. I reached them at a time when they had watered their camels, milked them, and drunk themselves. When they saw me, they said: Welcome to Sudayy bin Ajlan. Then they said: We have learned that you have joined the religion of this man (Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)). I said: No, rather I have believed in Allah and His Messenger, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has sent me to you to present Islam and its laws to you. While we were in this conversation, they brought a bowl full of blood, set it down, and all gathered around it to eat. They said: O Sudayy, you come too. I said: Woe to you! I have come to you from the one who has forbidden all this to you through what Allah has revealed. They asked: What is that? I said: This verse was revealed to him: "Forbidden to you are carrion, blood and the flesh of swine" [Surah al-Ma'idah: 3] . Then I began inviting them to Islam, but they kept refusing. At last I said to them: Woe to you! Give me a little water, for I am extremely thirsty. They said: No, rather we will let you die of thirst. He relates: I adjusted my turban, covered my head with the turban, and lay down to sleep on the scorching ground in intense heat. In my dream someone came to me with a glass cup more beautiful than any people have ever seen, containing a drink more delicious than any people have ever tasted. He handed the cup to me and I drank it. As soon as I finished drinking, I woke up. By Allah, since drinking that cup I have never felt thirsty, nor have I known the pain of thirst. Then I heard them saying: A man from among the nobles of your people came to you and you did not give him even a sip of diluted milk! Then they brought me a little diluted milk, and I said: I have no need of it; Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has fed me and given me drink. Then I showed them my (full) belly, and they all, to the last one, accepted Islam.

It is narrated from Ahmad bin Ya'qub that Khalifah bin Khayyat said: Mu'awiyah bin Haydah bin Mu'awiyah bin Qushayr bin Ka'b bin Rabi'ah bin Amir is his lineage, and this lineage was stated to me by Abdullah bin al-Jarud.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin Haydah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: O Messenger of Allah, to whom should I show the most kindness? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "To your mother." And he mentioned the full hadith. We have recorded it from Ibn Awn, by way of Bahz, only through him.

It is narrated from Hakim bin Mu'awiyah bin Haydah, from his father, that he said to his brother Malik bin Haydah: Take us to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for he knows you and does not know me; he (peace and blessings be upon him) has detained some of my neighbours (for some reason). So the two of them came to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and Malik bin Haydah said: O Messenger of Allah, I have accepted Islam and my neighbours have also become Muslims, so release them. He (peace and blessings be upon him) gave no answer. He said it again, and still received no answer. He stood up angrily and said: If you do this, people will say that you call to one thing and yourself do the opposite. (Mu'awiyah says:) I began to rebuke him and stop him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What is he saying?" The people told him that he was saying such-and-such. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If I have done that, its burden will be upon me; nothing of it will fall upon them. Release his neighbours to him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mikhmar bin Haydah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: O Messenger of Allah, I stay away from water for a month at a time and my wife is with me; may I have (marital) relations with her? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." I said: O Messenger of Allah, I stay away for several months at a time. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, even if you stay away for ten years." From here begins the account of the names of the pure wives of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): in the Jahiliyyah and in Islam; the virgins and the previously married; in whose marriage they had been before; their number; from whom he had children; with whom the marriage was consummated and with whom it was not; who was divorced before consummation; who was divorced afterwards; who was divorced and then taken back; who died while married to him (peace and blessings be upon him); whom he married in Makkah; whom in Madinah or in other places; who were from Quraysh; who were from the allied tribes; who were from other Arab tribes; who were from the Children of Israel; who were from among Arab captives; which women he (peace and blessings be upon him) proposed to but did not marry; what the times of the marriages were; which of the wives remained married to him (peace and blessings be upon him) until his passing; and an account of the non-Arab slave women.

It is narrated from al-Zuhri that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) married twelve noble Arab women.