Ibn Mājah (1) also transmits—through the narration of Yazīd ibn Hārūn—that ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī (2) said: “I heard Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd say, ‘I asked ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr, “Did you actually hear this ḥadīth from ʿIkrimah?” He replied, “Ibn Abī Yaḥyā related it to me from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, from him.”’”
I add: It has reached me that in Egypt there is a shrine containing many relics of the Prophet ﷺ which one of the later viziers took pains to gather—among them a kohl container, its applicator, a comb, and other items. Allah knows best.
The Mantle (al-Burda)
Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī (4) said: As for the mantle that remained with the caliphs, we have been informed—on the authority of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār in the story of Tabūk—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave the people of Aylah his mantle along with the letter in which he guaranteed their safety. Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad bought it for three hundred dinars—that is, the first ʿAbbāsid caliph, as-Saffāḥ (may Allah have mercy on him).
The ʿAbbāsids thereafter handed this mantle down from one caliph to the next. On the day of ʿĪd the caliph would drape it over his shoulders, take in one hand the staff attributed to the Prophet ﷺ, and appear with such dignity and gravity that hearts were humbled and eyes overwhelmed. They also wore black on Fridays and the festivals, emulating the Master of the desert and the city alike—those who dwelt in tents of hair and houses of clay—because al-Bukhārī (6) and Muslim (7), the two leading Imams of tradition, relate from Mālik, from al-Zuhrī, from Anas that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered Mecca wearing a helmet. Another wording says: “He was wearing a black turban,” and yet another: “He had let its end hang between his shoulders,” peace and blessings be upon him.
Al-Bukhārī (11) further said: Musaddad narrated to us; Ismāʿīl narrated to us; Ayyūb narrated to us, from Ḥumayd (12), from Abū Burdah, who said: “ʿĀʾishah brought out to us a coarse cloak and a thick waist-wrapper, and said, ‘In these two the soul of the Prophet ﷺ was taken.’”