Ibn Isḥāq, on the authority of ʿĀmir ibn Wahb, said:
Al-Mughīrah set out with six men from Banū Mālik for Egypt on a trading expedition. When they reached Buzāq (1) he attacked them, slaughtered them, drove off the caravan, and then embraced Islam (2).

Hushaym narrated to us, from Mujālid, from al-Shaʿbī, from al-Mughīrah, who said:
“I was the last of the people to take leave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after he was buried. ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib came out of the grave, so I threw in my ring and said, ‘Abū al-Ḥasan, my ring!’ He replied, ‘Go down and take it.’ So I wiped my hand over the shroud and then came out (3).”

Muḥāḍir transmitted the same report from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, from al-Shaʿbī.

Al-Wāqidī said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī related to us, from his father, from his grandfather:
When al-Mughīrah flung his ring into the grave, ʿAlī said, “Let people not say that you descended into the grave of the Prophet of Allah, nor that your ring remains in his grave.” Then ʿAlī himself went down and handed it to him.

Ḥusayn ibn Ḥafṣ, from Hishām ibn Saʿd, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father:
ʿUmar appointed al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah over Bahrain, but the people disliked him, so ʿUmar dismissed him. They then feared he might send him back.
Their dihqān (4) said, “If you do what I instruct you, he will never restore him over us.”
They said, “Command us.”
He said, “Gather one hundred thousand; I will take it to ʿUmar and say, ‘Al-Mughīrah misappropriated this and gave it to me.’”
So they collected for him one hundred thousand, and he went to ʿUmar and said that.
ʿUmar summoned al-Mughīrah and questioned him. He replied, “He has lied—may Allah set you right—there were two hundred thousand.”
ʿUmar asked, “What drove you to do this?”
He said, “My dependants and need.”
Then ʿUmar