and pour out whatever was inside it."
Umm Ayman replied, "O Messenger of Allah, I awoke in the night feeling very thirsty, so I drank what it contained."
He said, "From this day on you will never suffer any stomach pain."
Ibn al-Athīr states in al-Ghābah (1): Ḥajjāj ibn Muḥammad narrated from Ibn Jurayj, from Ḥakīmah bint Umaymah, from her mother Umaymah bint Ruqayqah (2), who said: "The Prophet ﷺ kept a small wooden cup (3) under his bed and would urinate in it. A woman named Barakah came and drank its contents. When he looked for the cup and did not find it, they told him, ‘Barakah has drunk it.’ He remarked, ‘She has indeed shielded herself from the Fire with a strong barrier.’ (4)"
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū al-Ḥasan Ibn al-Athīr adds: Some say that the woman who drank his urine was Barakah the Abyssinian who accompanied Umm Ḥabībah from Abyssinia; he distinguishes between the two reports—and Allah knows best.
I (the compiler) say: As for Barīrah (5), she originally belonged to the household of Abū Aḥmad ibn Jash. They drew up a contract for her emancipation; ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) bought her from them and set her free, so her allegiance remained with her, as related in the two Ṣaḥīḥs (6). Ibn ʿAsākir does not mention her.
Among these women was Khadrah (7). Ibn Mandah reports that Muʿāwiyah narrated from Hishām, from Sufyān, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, who said: "The Prophet ﷺ had a servant named Khadrah."
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd (8), citing al-Wāqidī, relates: Faʾid, the freedman of ʿUbayd Allāh, narrated from ʿUbayd Allāh (9) ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Rāfiʿ, from his grandmother Salmā, who said: "Those who served the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were myself, Khadrah, Raḍwā, and Maymūnah bint Saʿd; the Messenger of Allah ﷺ emancipated all of them."
Also among them was Khulaysah, the freedwoman of Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar. Ibn al-Athīr writes in al-Ghābah that her report was transmitted by ʿUlaylah (10) bint al-Kumayt, from her grandmother, from Khulaysah, concerning the incident of Ḥafṣah and ʿĀʾishah with Sawdah bint Zamʿah and their light-hearted jesting.