Two migrations, not one

Asma bint Umays came to visit, and Umar was present. He is reported to have said something to the effect that the Madinan emigrants had reached the Prophet ﷺ before the Abyssinian group had, and so had the greater claim on him.

Asma did not let the comparison stand. She answered that the Madinan emigrants had had the Prophet ﷺ with them the whole time — feeding whoever among them went hungry, and teaching whoever among them was ignorant — while the Abyssinian group had been in a foreign land, cut off, for the sake of Allah and His Messenger ﷺ alone. She said she would not eat or drink until she had put the matter to the Prophet ﷺ herself.

She went and asked him. His answer was clear: the Abyssinian emigrants had two migrations to their credit, the Madinan emigrants only one.

The report describes her happiness at the answer, and says that afterward, other Abyssinian emigrants would come to her simply to hear her tell it again.