Among them is Nufayʿ—also called Masrūḥ, and according to another view Nāfiʿ ibn Masrūḥ. The soundest opinion, however, is that his name is Nāfiʿ ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Kalada ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿIlāj ibn Abī Salamah ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Ghiyra ibn ʿAwf ibn Qasī of the Thaqīf tribe; he is better known by his kunyah Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī. His mother was Sumayyah, the mother of Ziyād. He and a group of slaves let themselves down from the wall of Ṭāʾif on a rope, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, set them free. Because he descended on a bakrah (a pulley-rope), the Prophet named him Abū Bakrah. Abū Nuʿaym said: He was a righteous man, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, made him a brother to Abū Barzah al-Aslamī. I say: He is the one for whom the funeral prayer was offered in accordance with his own bequest. Abū Bakrah was not present at the Battle of the Camel, nor at Ṣiffīn. He died in 51 AH, and it is also said 52 AH.

Among them is Wāqid—or Abū Wāqid—the freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī narrated: “Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān told us; al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān told us; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm told us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad told us; al-Haytham ibn Ḥammād told us, from al-Ḥārith ibn Ghassān, from a man of Quraysh among the people of Madinah, from Zādhān, from Wāqid, the freedman of the Prophet, who said that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“Whoever obeys Allah has indeed remembered Allah, even if his prayers, fasting, and recitation of the Qur’an are few; and whoever disobeys Allah has not remembered Him, even if his prayers, fasting, and recitation of the Qur’an are many.”

Among them is Hurmuz Abū Kaysān—he is also called Hurmuz or Kaysān, and he is the one referred to as Ṭahmān, as mentioned earlier. Ibn Wahb said: “ʿAlī ibn ʿĀbis narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Fāṭimah bint ʿAlī—or Umm Kulthūm bint ʿAlī—who said: ‘A freedman of ours named Hurmuz, whose kunyah was Abū Kaysān, told me that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “We are a Household for whom charity (ṣadaqah) is unlawful, and our freedmen are a part of us, so do not consume charity.”’

Al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān narrated it from Asad ibn Mūsā, from Warqāʾ, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, who said: “I entered upon Umm Kulthūm and she said: ‘Hurmuz—or Kaysān—told us that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “We do not eat charity.”’

Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī said: ‘Manṣūr ibn Abī Muzāḥim narrated to us; Abū Ḥafṣ al-Abbār narrated to us; Ibn Abī Ziyād narrated to us…’