Abū Dāwūd (1) and Ibn Mājah (2) transmit—through the isnād of al-Walīd ibn Muslim, from Ibn Thawbān, from his father, from Abū Kabshah al-Anmārī—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to have cupping performed on the crown of his head and between his shoulders.
Al-Tirmidhī (3) likewise relates: Ḥumayd ibn Masʿadah narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Ḥumrān narrated to us, from Abū Saʿīd—namely ʿAbd Allāh ibn Busur—who said: I heard Abū Kabshah al-Anmārī say, “The turbans (kimām) (4) of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to hang loosely.”
Among them was Abū Muwayhibah, the Prophet’s freedman. He was a native-born client of Muzaynah; the Messenger of Allah bought him and then set him free, and his given name is not known.
Muṣʿab al-Zubayrī (5) said: Abū Muwayhibah was present at the campaign of al-Muraysīʿ, and he was the one who led ʿĀ’ishah’s camel.
We have already quoted the report that Imām Aḥmad, with his chain of transmission (6), narrated from Abū Muwayhibah when he accompanied the Messenger of Allah ﷺ by night to al-Baqīʿ. The Prophet paused there, prayed for the deceased, and sought forgiveness for them, then said:
“Glad tidings to you for the state you are in compared to what the people are facing (7). Tribulations have arrived like segments of a pitch-dark night (8), each one riding on the back of the other; the latter will be more severe than the former. So blessed are you for the condition you enjoy.”
He then returned and said, “O Abū Muwayhibah, I have been offered the choice between the keys to whatever dominion will be opened for my community after me—together with Paradise—or meeting my Lord, and I have chosen the meeting with my Lord.” He (Abū Muwayhibah) said: No more than seven—or eight—days passed after that before he was taken.
These, then, were his male servants.
His female servants (9): Among them was Ummatu llāh bint Razīnah (10). The sound view is that the status of Companionship belongs to her mother, Razīnah, as will be explained, but it has been