—by Quraysh before revelation, and at that time such slaughter was lawful. Their meat only came to be described as forbidden after the verse was revealed, just as wine remained permissible until its prohibition was sent down in Madinah after the Battle of Uhud.

Beyond any doubt, he was divinely protected both before and after revelation, and—prior to the codification of the Law—certainly from fornication, betrayal, treachery, lying, drunkenness, prostrating to an idol, seeking omens by divining arrows, every vice, frivolity, coarse speech, and exposure of the private parts. He never circumambulated the Kaʿbah naked, nor did he, on the Day of ʿArafah, stand with his people at Muzdalifah; rather, he stood at ʿArafah.

In any case, had anything of that sort ever appeared from him he would not have incurred blame, for he did not yet possess knowledge; nonetheless, the rank of perfection categorically refuses to allow any such act from him, ﷺ.

Abu Muʿāwiyah narrated—through Hishām, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I entered Paradise and saw for Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl two great trees.”

Its chain is singular.

It was also transmitted by al-Bāghandī ⦗1⦘, from al-Ashajj, from him.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Zinād narrated—from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from Asmāʾ—who said:

“I saw Zayd ibn ʿAmr, an elderly man, leaning his back against the Kaʿbah and saying:”