[1] “an-Nābighah” is the surname of Layla hint Ḥarmalah al-‘Anaziyyah, mother of ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ. The reason for attributing him to his mother is her common reputation in the matter. When Arwā hint al-Ḥārith ibn ‘Abd al-Muṭṭālib went to Mu‘āwiyah, during the conversation, when ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ intervened, she said to him: “O son of an-Nābighah, you too dare speak, although your mother was known publicly and was a singer of Mecca. That is why five persons claimed you (as a son), and when she was asked she admitted that five people had visited her and that you should be regarded as the son of him you resembled most. You must have resembled al-‘Āṣ ibn Wā’il and therefore you came to be know as his son.” These five persons were (1) al-‘Āṣi ibn Wā’il, (2) Abū Lahab, (3) Umayyah ibn Khalaf, (4) Hishām ibn al-Mughirah, and (5) Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb. (Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih, al-‘Iqd al farīd, vol. 2, p. 120; Ibn Ṭayfūr, Balāghāt an-nisā’, p. 27; Ibn Ḥijjah, Thamarāt al-awrāq, vol. 1, p. 132; Ṣafwat, Jamharat khuṭab al-‘Arab, vol. 2, p. 363; Ibn Abi’l-Ḥadīd, vol. 6, pp. 283—285, 291; al-Ḥalabī, as-Sīrah, vol. 1, p. 46).