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4512. Wahb bin Baqiyyah narrated to us, from Khālid, from Muḥammad bin ‘Amr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurairah, who said: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ used to accept gifts but he did not eat (that which was given in) charity.” And Wahb bin Baqiyyah narrated to us, elsewhere, from Khālid, from Muḥammad bin ‘Amr, that Abū Salamah – and he did not mention Abū Hurairah – said: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ used to accept gifts, but he did not eat (that which was given in) charity.” And he added: “A Jewish woman in Khaibar gave him a roasted sheep that she had poisoned, and the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ ate from it, as did the people. He said: ‘Lift up your
hands (meaning, stop eating), for it has told me that it is poisoned.' Bishr bin Al-Barā' bin Ma'rūr Al-Ansārī died (of that poison), and he sent word to the Jewish woman asking: 'What made you do what you did?' She said: 'If you were a Prophet it would not harm you, and if you were a king the people would have been rid of you.' The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ ordered that she be killed, then he said during his final illness: 'I continued to feel pain because of the morsel that I ate at Khaibar, but now it has cut off my aorta.'" (Hasan)
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The Prophet ﷺ forgave the woman at first, but when one of his Companions died after eating that meat, she was killed in retaliation. See also Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim no. 350.
