Hadhrat Umme Habibah (Radi-Allahu-Anha's) Behaviour With Her Father:

Hadhrat Ummul Mu'mineen Umme Habibah (Radi-Allahu-Anha) was previously married to Ubaidullah bin Jahsh.
She emigrated with her husband to Abyssinia. Her husband turned renegade and died there as a Kafir.

The Prophet ﷺ sent his offer to marry
her through king Negus, while she was still passing her days in Abyssinia as a widow. She accepted the offer and
came to Madinah to live with the Prophet ﷺ.

During the period of truce between the Muslims and the idolaters of Makkah , her father Abu Sufyan once came to Madinah for negotiations in connection with reinforcing the truce. He went to
see Umme Habibah (Radi-Allahu-Anha).
As he was about to sit on the bedding
in her room, she removed it from under him. He was surprised over her behaviour and said: "Was the bedding unfit for me or I unfit for the bedding?"
She replied: "This bedding is meant for the dear and holy
Prophet ﷺ, while you are an idolater and therefore unclean. How can I allow you to sit on this bedding?"
Abu Sufyan was full of grief and remarked:
"Since you left us, you have developed bad manners." In the face of the great reverence that she had for the Prophet ﷺ, she could not tolerate an unclean mushrik (though he be her own father) to sit on the Prophet's bedding.

Once she came to know from the Prophet ﷺ about the virtues of twelve rakaats of
Chasht. Since that time she kept on offering this Salaah regularly.
Her father Hadhrat Abu Sufyan (Radi-Allahu-Anhu) later embraced Islam. On the third day of his death, she sent for some perfume and used it saying: "I neither need nor like the perfume. I have heard the Prophet of ﷺ saying, 'A woman is not permitted to mourn the death of any person
(except her husband's) for more than three days. (The mourning period in case of husband's death is however four months and ten days.) I am using the perfume simply to show that I am not mourning the death of my father any longer."

When she was about to die, she sent for Hadhrat Aaisha (Radi-Allahu-Anha) and said: "We have been rivals in sharing the love of the Prophet ﷺ It is just possible that we might have offended each other. I forgive you Please forgive me too."
Hadhrat Aaisha (Radi-Allahu-Anha) said:
"I forgive you by all means. May Allah forgive you too."
She remarked: "Oh, Aaisha, you have made me very happy. May Allah keep you happy."
Similarly, she sent for Hadhrat Umme Salmah (Radi-Allahu-Anha) and secured forgiveness.
The tension between two rival wives is natural, Hadhrat Umme Habibah (Radi-Allahu-Anha) wanted to be forgiven by people before she appeared before Allah.

Her reverence and love for the Prophet ﷺ can be judged from her behaviour towards her own father.

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