al-ʿAbbās, al-Faḍl, and Ṣāliḥ, the Prophet’s freedman—may Allah bless him and grant him peace. A laḥd (1) was dug for the Prophet, and unfired bricks were set upright over it.

Al-Bayhaqī (2) relates, on the authority of certain transmitters, that nine bricks were placed over his laḥd.

Al-Wāqidī reports, through Ibn Abī Sabrah, from ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maʿbad, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said:

“The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—lay upon his bier from the moment the sun passed the meridian on Monday until it passed the meridian on Tuesday. During that entire time the people were offering the funeral prayer over him while his bier stood at the edge of his grave. When they resolved to bury him, they moved the bier toward the side of his feet and introduced him from that direction. Those who entered his grave-pit were al-ʿAbbās, ʿAlī, Qutham, al-Faḍl, and Shuqrān.”

Al-Bayhaqī (4) likewise transmits, through Ismāʿīl al-Suddī, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās:

“Al-ʿAbbās, ʿAlī, and al-Faḍl entered the grave of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—and a man from the Anṣār shaped the laḥd for him; he is the same man who fashioned the lahds of the martyrs on the Day of Badr.”

Ibn ʿAsākir comments: “The correct report says: on the Day of Uḥud.”

The version already cited from Ibn Isḥāq, via Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, states:

“Those who descended into the grave of the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—were ʿAlī, al-Faḍl, Qutham, and Shuqrān; he mentioned a fifth, Aws ibn Khawlī, and he related the story of the quilt that Shuqrān placed in the grave.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī (5) said: Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Muḥammadābādhī narrated to us; Abū Qilābah narrated; Abū ʿĀṣim narrated; Sufyān ibn Saʿīd—that is, al-Thawrī—narrated, from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, from al-Shaʿbī, who said:

“Abū Marḥab told me, ‘It is as though I can still see them inside the Prophet’s grave—four men, one of whom was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf.’ ”

Abū Dāwūd (6) recorded the same report from Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, from Sufyān, from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid. He also transmitted it (7) via Aḥmad ibn Yūnus, from Zuhayr, from Ismāʿīl, from al-Shaʿbī, who said: “Marraḥab—or Abū Marraḥab—told me that they brought ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf down with them. When they had finished, ʿAlī said (8): ‘A man’s own family are the ones who should attend to him.’ ” This ḥadīth is exceedingly rare; its chain is sound and strong, and we know it only through this route.

Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Barr states in al-Istīʿāb (9): “Abū Marḥab’s given name is Suwayd ibn Qays,” and he also mentions Abā Marḥab.