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4357. Narrated Qais: Jarīr said, "Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said to me, 'Won't you relieve me from Dhūl-Khalāṣa?' I replied, 'Yes, (I will relieve you).' So, I proceeded along with one hundred and fifty cavalrymen from Aḥmas (tribe) who were excellent knights. It happened that I could not sit firm over horses, so I informed the Prophet ﷺ of that, and he stroked my chest till I saw his finger marks over my chest, and he said, 'O Allāh! Make him firm and make him a guiding and a rightly-guided man.' Since then I have never fallen from a horse. Dhūl-Khalāṣa was a house in Yemen belonging to the tribes of Khath'am and Bajīla, and in it there were idols which were worshipped, and it was called Al-Ka'bah. Jarīr went there, burnt it with fire and dismantled it. When Jarīr reached Yemen, there was a man who used to foretell and give good omens by casting arrows of divination. Someone said to him, "The messenger of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ is present here and if he should get hold of you, he would chop off your neck." One day, while he was using them (i.e., arrows of divination), Jarīr stopped there and said to him, "Break them (i.e., the arrows) and testify that Lā ilāha illallāh (none has the right to be worshipped but Allāh), or else I will chop off your neck." So the man broke those arrows and testified that Lā ilāha illallāh. Then Jarīr sent a man called Abū Arṭāh from the tribe of Aḥmas to the Prophet ﷺ to convey the good news (of destroying Dhūl-Khalāṣa). When the messenger reached the Prophet ﷺ, he said, "O Allāh's Messenger! By Him Who sent you with the Truth, I did not leave it till it was like a scabby camel." Then the Prophet ﷺ invoked for Allāh's Blessings for the horses of Aḥmas and their men, five times.