back to him, presented him with a mantle, and issued a written guarantee concerning their sea. This report is found in the authentic collections.

Ibn Saʿd adds: “The ruler of Dūmat al-Jandal sent the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a mule and a silk brocade cloak.” In its chain of transmission is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maymūn al-Qaddāḥ, and he is weak.

Some also claim that Chosroes sent him a mule, but this is highly improbable, for that accursed man tore up the Prophet’s letter.

The Prophet owned the she-camel on which he migrated from Mecca; it was called al-Qaṣwāʾ, al-ʿAḍbāʾ, and al-Jadʿāʾ, and it was light grey.

Ayman ibn Nābil narrates from Qudāmah ibn ʿAbd Allāh: “I saw the Prophet ﷺ on a light-coloured camel throwing the pebbles at the jamrah—no striking, no driving, no ‘Move! Move!’” The ḥadīth is sound (ḥasan). Ṣuhbāʾ means a fair-coloured camel.

He ﷺ also owned milch-camels that Ghatafān and Fazārah raided; Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ rescued them and drove them back. Al-Bukhārī records this, and it is one of his traditions transmitted through only three narrators.

It is further related that on the day of al-Hudaybiyah the Prophet ﷺ dedicated as an offering a camel with a silver nose-ring—booty he had taken from Abū Jahl at Badr—so as to vex the idolaters when they saw it. It was a Mahri camel on which he used to campaign and which he employed as the sire for his she-camels.

It is said that he ﷺ had twenty milch-camels at al-Ghābah, from which two large skins of milk were brought to him every night.

He also had fifteen milch-camels that were grazed by his servant Yasar, who was later killed.