Among them is Midʿam. He was a black man, one of the native-born of Ḥismā, whom Rafāʿah ibn Zayd al-Judhamī had presented to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Midʿam was killed during the Prophet’s lifetime, on the army’s return from Khaybar. When they reached Wādī al-Qurā and Midʿam was unloading the saddle from the Messenger of Allah’s camel, a stray arrow struck and killed him.

The people exclaimed, “Good news for him—martyrdom!” but the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “No, by Him in whose hand is my soul! The cloak he took on the day of Khaybar, before the spoils had been divided, is now blazing upon him as fire.” When they heard that, a man came forward with a single sandal-strap—or two—and the Prophet said, “A strap of fire, or two straps of fire.” Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim recorded this ḥadīth through Mālik, from Thawr ibn Zayd, from Abū al-Ghayth, from Abū Hurayrah.

Among them is Mihrān—also called Ṭahmān—the servant from whom Umm Kulthūm bint ʿAlī transmitted the report concerning the prohibition of charity for the Banū Hāshim and their freedmen, as mentioned earlier.

Among them is Maymūn, the one just referred to.

Among them is Nāfiʿ, his freedman. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir relates—with a chain that includes Abū al-Fath al-Māhānī, Shujāʿ the Ṣūfī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān, Yazīd ibn Hārūn, Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī, and Yūsuf ibn Maymūn—that Nāfiʿ, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say, ‘An aged adulterer shall not enter Paradise, nor a destitute person who is proud, nor anyone who parades his deeds before Allah.’”