Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir reports:
Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā related to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥarrānī, from Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, from Abū Bakr ibn ʿUbayd-Allāh ibn Anas, from Anas—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:
“The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, had a servant called Qafīz.”
This narration is recorded solely by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān.
Among them is Karkara: he was responsible for the Prophet’s ﷺ baggage on one of the military expeditions. Abū Bakr ibn Ḥazm also mentioned him in a letter he sent to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. Imām Aḥmad said: “Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAmr, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said:
‘A man in charge of the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ baggage was named Karkara. He died, and the Prophet said, “He is in the Fire.”’
They looked and found a cloak—or a blanket—that he had stolen.
Al-Bukhārī transmitted the report from ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, from Sufyān.
I say: His story is similar to that of Midʿam, whom Rafāʿah of Banū al-Ḍubayb presented to the Prophet, as will be mentioned.
Among them is Kaysān.
Al-Baghawī states: Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us; Ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who said:
“I came to Umm Kulthūm bint ʿAlī, who said: ‘A freedman of the Prophet ﷺ named Kaysān told me that the Prophet ﷺ said to him concerning a matter of charity:
“We, the People of the House, have been forbidden to partake of charity, and our freedman is counted as one of us; therefore he, too, must not eat from charity.”’”
Among them is Maʾbūr the Copt, the eunuch, whom the ruler of Alexandria sent to the Prophet together with Māriyah, Sirīn, and the mule. We have already given a sufficient account of him in the biography of Māriyah, may Allah be pleased with her.