Slaves

Slaves

1. Zayd ibn Haritha, whom he ﷺ freed
2. Zayd’s son Usama
3. Thawban
4. Abu Kabshah Sulaym, who participated in Badr,
   • he ﷺ freed him
   • he passed away on the day Umar became Caliph
5. Anasah, whom he ﷺ freed
6. Shuqran, who’s name was Salih,
   • reported inherited from his father or bought from Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf and freed
7. Rabah, the black Nubian
   • he would occasionally permit people to enter his ﷺ room whe he would be alone
   • he ﷺ freed him
8. Yasar, the Nubian shepahed, he was killed by Uraniyyin
9. Abu Rafi Aslam, who was given to him as a gift from al-Abbas
   • He freed him on the good news that al-Abbas accepting Islam
   • married him off to his slave woman Salma, who later bore his son Ubayd Allah
10. Abu Muwayhibah, who he ﷺ freed
11. Fadalah, who died in Sham
12. Rafi, the slave of Sa’id ibn al-As, whom he freed
13. Mid’am, who was given to him as a gift by Rafā’ah al-Judhāmī and was killed in Wādī al-Qurā.
14. Karkarah the Nubian, who was given to him as a gift by Hudhah ibn ‘Alī and was freed by him.
15. Zayd, Bilal ibn Yasār’s grandfather.
16. ‘Ubayd.
17. Tahmān.
18. Mā’bur the Copt, who was given as a gift from al-Muqawqis (the Egyptian Emperor).
19. Wāqid.
20. Wāqid’s father.
21. Hishām.
22. Abū Dumayrah, who was taken as war booty and then freed by him ﷺ.
23. Ḥunayn.
24. Abū ‘Asīb, whose name is Aḥmar.
25. Abū ‘Ubayd.
26. Safīnah, who was owned by Umm Salamah.
    • She freed him on the condition that he serve the Prophet ﷺ throughout his life; his name was Rabāḥ, and it has also been said it was Mahrān.
27. Abū Hind, whom he ﷺ freed.
28. Anjashah al-Hādī.
29. Abū Lubābah.

And scholars have enumerated more than mentioned above.

Female slaves

1. Salmā Umm Rāfi‘: The wife of Abū Rāfi‘, whom the Prophet ﷺ inherited from his father.
2. Māriyah: (Also known as Māriyah al-Qibṭiyyah), who was given as a gift from al-Muqawqis.
3. Rayḥānah.
4. Qayṣar: The sister of Māriyah.
5. Maymūnah bint Sa‘d.
6. Khaḍirah.
7. Raḍwā.

Ibn al-Jawzī stated the Prophet ﷺ had forty three makes freed slaves and eleven slave-women in total, may Allah be pleased with them all, though they were not all with him at the same time.

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