Khuwailid ibn Asad al-Asadī; Jahm ibn Qays [ibn ʿAbd Sharḥabīl] al-ʿAbdarī—whose wife Umm Ḥarmalah [daughter of] ʿAbd al-Aswad died in Abyssinia, and whose son ʿAmr and daughter Khuzaymah also died there, may Allah have mercy on them; ʿĀmir ibn Abī Waqqāṣ al-Zuhrī; ʿUtbah ibn Masʿūd, their ally from Hudhayl; al-Ḥārith ibn Khālid ibn Ṣakhr al-Taymī—his wife Rayṭah bint al-Ḥārith likewise perished there, may Allah have mercy on her; ʿUthmān ibn Rabīʿah ibn Uhbān al-Jumaḥī; Maḥmiyyah ibn Jazʾ al-Zubaydī, the ally of Banū Sahm; Muʿammar ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Naḍlah al-ʿAdawī; Abū Ḥāṭib ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Shams; Mālik ibn Rabīʿah ibn Qays ibn ʿAbd Shams of the Banū ʿĀmir—accompanied by his wife ʿAmrah bint al-Saʿdī; and al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAbd Qays ibn Laqīṭ al-Fihrī.

I say: Ibn Isḥāq did not mention the Ashʿarīs who came with Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī—namely his two elder brothers Abū Burdah and Abū Ruhm, and his uncle Abū ʿĀmir. He mentioned none of the Ashʿarīs except Abū Mūsā, omitting any reference to his two brothers, as has already been reported in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. It seems that Ibn Isḥāq—may Allah have mercy on him—had not come across Abū Mūsā’s narration on the matter, and Allah knows best.

He added: There were also women aboard the two ships—widows of Muslim men who had died there. On this point he has provided much useful detail.

Al-Bukhārī (1) relates: ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; Sufyān narrated to us; I heard al-Zuhrī—who was being questioned by Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah—say: ʿAnbasah ibn Saʿīd informed me that Abū Hurayrah came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him—meaning, he requested that a share be allotted to him. Someone from the clan of Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ said, “Do not give it to him.” Abū Hurayrah replied, “This man is the slayer of Ibn Qawqal.” The man retorted, “How astonishing that a mere tuft of wool dangling from a sheep’s head should be set apart to the exclusion of a Muslim!”

Al-Bukhārī (2) also reports—through al-Zubaydī, from al-Zuhrī—who said: ʿAnbasah ibn Saʿīd informed me that he heard Abū Hurayrah say to Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dispatched [Abān] at the head of a detachment from Madinah toward Najd. Abū Hurayrah continued: ‘Abān and his men returned to the Prophet ﷺ at Khaybar after it had been taken, their saddle-bags stuffed with dates. I said, “O Messenger of Allah, do not assign them a share.” Abān retorted, “And you—O furry creature that slid down from the top of a desert bush—are you saying this?” The Prophet ﷺ said, “O Abān, sit down,” and he did not allot them anything.’”

Abū Dāwūd (3) has transmitted this ḥadīth with his own chain—from Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī—in similar form.