Lineage

According to another narration, the name of his mother was Hantama bint Hisham. Based on this narration, she would be the sister of Abu Jahl. However, this narration which mentions her being the sister of Abu Jahl is not widely accepted. Abu Umar says that whoever says that she was the sister of Abu Jahl is mistaken. If this was correct, she would have been the sister of Abu Jahl as well as Harith. However, this is not the case. She was the daughter of their paternal uncle [and therefore] the name of her father was Hashim.

(Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Al-Isabah fi Tamyiz al-Sahabah, Vol. 4, Umar (ra) bin al-Khattab [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 2005], 484.) (Ali Ibn al-Athir, Usd al-Ghabah fi Ma‘rifat al-Sahabah, Vol. 4, Umar bin al-Khattab (ra) [Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 2003], p. 138)