And narrated to me Abu al-Tahir and Harmala; they said: informed us Ibn Wahb; informed me Yunus, from Ibn Shihab, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: When the emigrants came from Mecca to Medina, they arrived with nothing in their hands, and the Ansar were the people of the land and property. The Ansar divided their property with them on the condition that they would give them half of the fruits of their wealth every year, and they would spare them the labor and expense. And the mother of Anas ibn Malik, who was called Umm Sulaym—and she was the mother of Abdullah ibn Abi Talha, who was a brother of Anas by his mother—had given the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, some palm trees of hers. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, gave them to Umm Ayman, his freed slave, the mother of Usama ibn Zayd.

Ibn Shihab said: Anas ibn Malik informed me that when the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, finished fighting the people of Khaybar and returned to Medina, the emigrants returned to the Ansar the gifts they had given them from their fruits. He said: So the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, returned to my mother her palm trees, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, gave Umm Ayman in their place from his own garden.

Ibn Shihab said: And of the matter of Umm Ayman, the mother of Usama ibn Zayd, it was that she was a young servant girl of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, and she was from Abyssinia. When Amina gave birth to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, after his father had died, Umm Ayman used to nurse him until the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, grew up. Then he freed her, and then married her to Zayd ibn Haritha. Then she died five months after the death of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.