A Believer in Abyssinia

The emigrants lived under the Negus's protection for years, and he came to believe in the Prophet ﷺ. Ibn Ishaq and other biographers report his acceptance of Islam, and the Prophet ﷺ himself would later call him "your brother" and "a righteous servant of Allah". A report in Sunan Abi Dawud has him saying, "I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah, and that he is the one whose coming 'Isa son of Maryam foretold" (Sunan Abi Dawud 3205), though its chain is weak.

When Umm Habibah bint Abi Sufyan was widowed in Abyssinia, the Negus married her to the Prophet ﷺ on his behalf, paid her dowry of four thousand from his own wealth, and sent her to Madinah with Shurahbil ibn Hasanah (Sunan Abi Dawud 2107).

Around the time of Khaybar, the last of the emigrants, Ja'far among them, sailed home from his land together with Abu Musa al-Ash'ari and his people, whose ship had carried them to the Negus (Sahih al-Bukhari 4230). They had found in Abyssinia exactly what the Prophet ﷺ had promised: a land where no one was wronged.