Muʿāwiyah said: “Twenty bondsmen took part in Badr; among them was a slave of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, named Hurmuz. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, emancipated him and said, ‘Allah has set you free. The client (mawlā) of a people counts as one of them. We are a Household for whom charity is forbidden, so do not partake of it.’
Among them, too, is Hishām, the freedman of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Muḥammad ibn Saʿd related: ‘Sulaymān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Raqī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Raqī narrated to us; from Sufyān; from ʿAbd al-Karīm; from Abū al-Zubayr; from Hishām, the freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: A man came and said, “O Messenger of Allah, my wife does not ward off the hand of anyone who touches her.” He replied, “Divorce her.” The man said, “But I like her.” He replied, “Then enjoy her.”’
Ibn Mundah remarked: ‘A number of transmitters have reported this from Sufyān al-Thawrī—from ʿAbd al-Karīm—from Abū al-Zubayr—from a mawla of Banū Hāshim—from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, without naming him. ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr also narrated it from ʿAbd al-Karīm, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir.’
Among them is Yasār; it is said that he was the one slain and mutilated by the ʿUrayniyyūn. Al-Wāqidī, citing his chain from Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah, reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, captured him on the day of Qarqurat al-Kudr along with the livestock of Banū Ghaṭafān and Sulaym. The people presented him to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him; seeing how well he prayed, the Prophet accepted him, set him free, and then distributed the livestock among the people, each of the two hundred men receiving seven camels.
Among them is Abū Ḥamrāʾ, the freedman and attendant of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. It is said that his name was Hilāl ibn al-Ḥārith; others say Ibn Ẓafar; still others say Hilāl ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ẓafar al-Sulamī. He had been taken captive in the pre-Islamic era of ignorance.