Delegation of Banū al-Bakkāʾ
Al-Wāqidī reports that they arrived in the ninth year after the Hijrah, numbering thirty men. Among them was Muʿāwiyah ibn Thawr ibn ʿIbādah ibn al-Bakkāʾ, who was then one hundred years old. He was accompanied by a son named Bishr. Muʿāwiyah said, “O Messenger of Allah, I seek blessing through your touch, for I have grown very old, and this son of mine is devoted to me—so please wipe your hand over his face.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wiped Bishr’s face, gave him several she-goats, and invoked blessing upon them. From that day forward they never experienced drought or lean year.

Muhammad ibn Bishr ibn Muʿāwiyah later composed the following verses:

(My father is he whose head the Messenger gently stroked,
Invoking good and boundless benedictions.
When Ahmad welcomed him he gave him she-goats—
pale, heavy-uddered, far from scrawny stock—
They brim the clan’s cauldrons every evening,
and by the next dawn the vessels fill anew.
Blest are the gifts, and blest indeed the giver;
upon him rests my prayer for as long as I shall live.)

Delegation of Kinānah
Al-Wāqidī, through his chains of transmission, relates that Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ al-Laythī came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while the Prophet was preparing for the expedition to Tabūk. Wāthilah performed the dawn prayer with him, then returned to his tribe, summoned them, and informed them about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. His father said, “By Allah, I will never speak to you again!” His sister overheard the exchange, accepted Islam, and equipped him until he was able to set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to Tabūk, riding a camel that belonged to Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ later sent him with Khālid against Ukaydir of Dūmah. When they returned, Wāthilah offered Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah the share of booty they had agreed upon. Kaʿb replied, “I carried you only for the sake of Allah.”