ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Nābiʾ ibn Zayd ibn Ḥarām ibn Kaʿb ibn Salamah—of the Salamah clan, specifically the Banū Ḥarām—and Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Riʾāb ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Sinān ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAdiyy ibn Ghanm ibn Kaʿb ibn Salamah—likewise of the Salamah clan, from the Banū ʿUbayd—are also named among that first company.

Al-Shaʿbī, al-Zuhrī, and others relate that on that night the number of those present from the Khazraj was six.

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, quoting al-Zuhrī and ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, reports that at the Prophet’s first meeting with them they were eight: Muʿādh ibn ʿAfrāʾ, Asʿad ibn Zurārah, Rāfiʿ ibn Mālik, Dhakwān—son of ʿAbd Qays—ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Yazīd ibn Thaʿlabah, Abū al-Haytham ibn al-Tayyihān, and ʿUwaym ibn Sāʿidah. They embraced Islam and promised to return the following year.

After reaching their homes they invited their people to Islam and sent Muʿādh ibn ʿAfrāʾ and Rāfiʿ ibn Mālik to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with the request: “Send us someone who can instruct us in the faith.” He therefore dispatched Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr, who stayed with Asʿad ibn Zurārah. Ibn Isḥāq will soon recount this story in fuller detail than the version preserved by Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah—Allah knows best.

Ibn Isḥāq continues: When they arrived in Madinah they spoke to their people about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and called them to Islam until the faith became widespread; there was not a single household of the Anṣār in which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was not mentioned.

The following year, during the pilgrimage season, twelve men from the Anṣār came forward:

1. Abū Umāmah Asʿad ibn Zurārah, already mentioned;
2. ʿAwf ibn al-Ḥārith, already mentioned;
3. his brother Muʿādh—both sons of ʿAfrāʾ;
4. Rāfiʿ ibn Mālik, previously mentioned;
5. Dhakwān ibn ʿAbd Qays ibn Khaldah ibn Mukhalad ibn ʿĀmir ibn Zurayq, of the Zurayq clan (Ibn Hishām notes that he was an Anṣārī who later emigrated);
6. ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit ibn Qays ibn Aṣram ibn Fihr ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Ghanm ibn ʿAwf ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf ibn al-Khazraj;
7. their ally Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Yazīd ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Khazmah ibn Aṣram, of the tribe of Balī;
8. al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿUbādah ibn Naḍlah ibn Mālik ibn al-ʿAjlān ibn Yazīd ibn Ghanm ibn Sālim ibn ʿAwf ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf ibn al-Khazraj, of the ʿAjlān branch;
9. ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Nābiʾ, mentioned above;
10. Quṭbah ibn ʿĀmir ibn Ḥadīdah, also mentioned above.

These ten were from the Khazraj. From the Aws there were two: ʿUwaym ibn Sāʿidah, and Abū al-Haytham Mālik ibn al-Tayyihān. Ibn Hishām observes that the name “al-Tayyihān” may be pronounced either lightly or with emphasis, like the Arabic words mayt and mayyit.