English translation
4177. Narrated Zaid bin Aslam: My father said, "Allāh's Messenger ﷺ was proceeding at night on one of his journeys and 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb was going along with him. 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb asked him (about something) but Allāh's Messenger ﷺ did not answer him. 'Umar asked him again, but he did not answer him. He asked him again (for the third time) but he did not answer him. On that 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb addressed himself saying, 'May your mother be bereaved of you, O 'Umar, for you have asked Allāh's Messenger ﷺ thrice, yet he has not answered you.' 'Umar said, 'Then I made my camel run fast and took it in front of the other Muslims, and I was afraid that something might be revealed in my connection. I had hardly waited for a moment when I heard somebody calling me, I said, 'I was afraid that something might have been revealed about me.' Then I came to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and greeted him. He (i.e., the Prophet ﷺ) said, 'Tonight there has been revealed to me, a Sūrah which is dearer to me than (all the world) on which the sun rises,' and then he recited: 'Verily, We have given you (O Muḥammad ﷺ) a manifest victory.'" (V.48:1) [٥١٢]
