Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with both of them) narrates that during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), a man instructed that his slave be freed after his death, and he had no wealth other than that slave. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: Who will buy this slave from me? Nu'aym bin Abdullah said: I will buy him, so he bought him. Amr bin Dinar says that Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with both of them) said: He was a Coptic slave, who died in the very first year. Abu al-Zubair has added that the (slave's) name was Ya'qub.