Mishkat al-Masabih #3080
Marriage
Umm Habiba said she was married to ‘Abdallah b. Jahsh who died in Abyssinia, so the Negus married her to the Prophet, giving her on his behalf a dower of four thousand. (A version has four thousand dirhams.) He sent her to God’s Messenger with Shurahbil b. Hasana.
Abu Dawud and Nasa’i transmitted it.
About Mishkat al-Masabih
This hadith is #3080 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Marriage. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.