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2893. Narrated Anas bin Mālik عَنهُ: رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ The Prophet ﷺ said to Abū Ṭalḥa, "Choose one boy from your boys to serve me till the expedition to Khaibar." Abū Ṭalḥa took me letting me ride behind him while I was a boy nearing the age of puberty. I used to serve Allāh's Messenger ﷺ when he stopped to rest. Very often I used to hear him saying, "O Allāh! I seek refuge with You from distress and sorrow, from helplessness and laziness, from miserliness and cowardice, from being overpowered by (other) men." When we reached Khaibar; and Allāh enabled him to conquer the fort (of Khaibar), the beauty of Ṣafīyya bint Ḥuyai bin Akḥṭab was described to him. Her husband had been killed while she was a bride. So, Allāh's Messenger ﷺ selected her for himself and took her along with him till we reached a place called Sad As-Ṣaḥbā', where she was clean from her menses, he
took her for his wife. Hais (a kind of dish) was served on a small leather sheet. Then Allāh's Messenger ﷺ told me to call those who were around me. So, that was the marriage banquet of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and Ṣafīyya. Then we left for Al-Madīna. I saw Allāh's Messenger ﷺ folding a cloak round the hump of the camel so as to make a wide space for Ṣafīyya (to sit on behind him). He sat beside his camel letting his knees for Ṣafīyya to put her feet on so as to mount the camel, we proceeded till we approached Al-Madīna; he looked at Uḥud (mountain) and said, "This is a mountain which loves us and is loved by us." Then he ﷺ looked at Al-Madīna and said, "O Allāh! I make the area between its (i.e., Al-Madīna's) two mountains a sanctuary as Ibrāhīm (Abraham) made Makkah a sanctuary. O Allāh! Bless them (i.e., the people of Al-Madīna) in their Mudd and Ṣā' (i.e., units of measuring)."
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