Al-Tirmidhī relates, through Zayd ibn Akhzam, ʿUthmān ibn Farqad, and Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, who said that Ibn Abī Rāfiʿ told him: “I heard Shuqrān say, ‘By Allah, I myself spread the blanket beneath the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—inside the grave.’”

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad also reported from his father: “The one who cut the niche in the Prophet’s grave was Abū Ṭalḥah, and the one who laid the blanket under him was Shuqrān.” Al-Tirmidhī then remarked, “This report is ḥasan, gharīb.”

As noted earlier, Shuqrān witnessed the washing of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, descended into his grave, and placed beneath him the very blanket on which the Prophet ﷺ used to pray, saying, “By Allah, no one shall wear it after you.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Athīr records in al-Ghābah that Shuqrān’s progeny died out; the last of them passed away in Madinah during the reign of Hārūn al-Rashīd.

Among the freedmen is Ḍumayrah ibn Abī Ḍumayrah al-Ḥimyarī. Captured in the pre-Islamic period, he was bought and then emancipated by the Prophet ﷺ. Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī notes that he owned a house in al-Baqīʿ and had offspring.

ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb narrated—from Ibn Abī Dhīb, from Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Ḍumayrah, from his father, from his grandfather Ḍumayrah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ once passed by Ḍumayrah’s mother while she was weeping and asked, “What makes you cry? Are you hungry? Do you lack clothing?” She replied, “O Messenger of Allah, I have been separated from my son.” He said, “A mother is not to be separated from her child.” He then sent for the man who had Ḍumayrah, summoned him, and purchased the boy for a young camel.

Ibn Abī Dhīb adds: “He then read to me a document in his possession:

In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. This is a document from Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, to Abū Ḍumayrah and his household: the Messenger of Allah has set them free, and they are a family from among the Arabs. If they wish, they may stay with the Messenger of Allah, and if they wish, they may return to their people. No one may harm them except with right, and whoever among the Muslims encounters them should treat them well. Written by Ubayy ibn Kaʿb.

Among the Prophet’s freedmen is also Ṭahmān—who is also said to have been named Dhakwān, Mihrān, Maymūn, or, according to another report, Kaysān.