In the Raudzatu-l-âhbâb it is recorded that biographical works enumerate twenty-seven men and eleven women as the servants of the best of men—b., etc.
Of the male attendants one was Anis B. Mâlek—A. r. h. —who waited on that prince during ten years. Another was Rabya’h B. Ka’b, whose duty it was to prepare the water for the sacred ablution of his lordship. Another was A’bdullah B. Masu’d, who had the sandals, the toothpick, the pillow and the cane of his lordship under his charge. Another was O’qbah B. A’amer, who guided the mule of the best of men during journeys. The names, however, of all the male and female servants are as follows: Ballâl the Abyssinian, who was the Muedhdhin,* and Sa’d, both of whom were freed men of Abu Bakr Ssiddyq; Makhrakah, also named Dhu Mokhayr, who was the cousin of the Najjâshy [sic]; Bakr B. Shaddatch Leythy; Abu Dharr Ghuffâry Asla’, the partner of Aswad B. Mâlek Asdy; Ayman B. Omm Ayman, the bearer of his lordship’s washing pot; Tha’lebah B. A’bdu-r-rahman the Anssâry; Khord B. Mâlek; Sâlem Sâboq Sâlemy the Mohâjer,* the slave of Omm Solmah—A. r. h.; Na’ym B. Abu Rabya’h Aslamy; Abu-l-hamra; Hallâl B. Alhâreth; Abussamyh; Abu Sallâm; and Abu O’beydah, who was a young man of the Anssâr. The names of the females are: Harethah-ummatullah, the daughter of Rabya’h; Barakah; Ayman; Hadzarah; Knowlah, the grandmother of Hafssah; Zarybah, the mother of A’lyah; Solmy, the mother of Râfi’; Mâryah, the mother of Arrabâb; Mâryah, the grandmother of Mathanna B. Ssâleh; Maymûnah, the daughter of Sa’d; and Ssofyah, the mother of A’yâsh.