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4643. It was narrated that Jâbir bin ‘Abdullâh said: “I was with the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ on a journey, and I was riding a camel. He said: ‘Why are you at the back of the people?’ I said: ‘My camel is tired.’ He took hold of its tail and shouted at it, then I was at the front of the people, worrying that it would go ahead of the others. When we drew close to Al-Madînah he said: ‘What happened to the camel? Sell it to me.’ I said, ‘No, it is yours O Messenger of Allâh.’ He said, ‘No, sell it to me.’ I said, ‘No, it is yours, O Messenger of Allâh.’ He said: ‘No, sell it to me. I will take it for one Uwqiyah but you (continue to) ride it. Then when you reach Al-Madînah, bring it to us.’ So when I reached Al-Madînah, I brought it to him. He said to Bilâl: ‘O Bilâl, weigh out for him one Uwqiyah and add a Qîrât.’ I said: ‘This is something extra that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ gave to me.’ I kept it with me and put it in a bag, and it stayed with me until the people of Ash-Shâm came on the Day of Al-Harrah and took from us what they took.’” (Sahîh)
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1. Qirât: twentieth part of a dinar or half a dirham.
2. 'It stayed with me': It was the blessed object given by the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ.
3. 'The Day of Al-Harrah': This refers to the period of Yazîd. The people of Al-Madinah had broken the Pledge of Allegiance of Yazîd, after the martyrdom of Husain ؓ. Yazîd sent an army from Syria. The fighting took place in the stony plain of Al-Harrah on the outskirts of Al-Madinah.
