of a young camel, in the house of some woman of such-and-such a clan. “Bring me my horse,” he demanded; he mounted it and died while still astride it.
Ḥarām then set out, accompanied by two men, one of whom was lame. He said, “Stay close to me until I reach them: if they grant me safe-conduct I shall speak on our behalf, but if they kill me you can return to our companions.”
Ḥarām approached them and said, “Will you guarantee my safety so that I may convey to you the message of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?” He began addressing them, but they signalled to one of their men, who came up from behind and stabbed him. Hammām said—and, as I recall, he (Ḥarām) exclaimed—“By the Lord of the Kaʿbah, I have triumphed!” All of them were killed except the lame man, who had taken refuge on the mountaintop.
Anas said: A verse was revealed concerning us—later abrogated—that read: “Indeed, we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us and we are pleased with Him.” For thirty consecutive mornings the Messenger of Allah ﷺ invoked Allah against Riʿl, Dhakwān, Banū Lihyān, and ʿUṣayyah, who had rebelled against Allah and His Messenger.
This report is recorded by al-Bukhārī, who states “for thirty mornings,” and that is the sound version. Something similar was transmitted by Qatādah, Thābit, and others from Anas. Some narrators abridge the account, and in certain chains it reads “for seventy mornings.”
Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah relates from Thābit: Anas once wrote a document for his household and said, “Bear witness, O company of reciters.” I seemed uncomfortable with that and said, “It would have been better had you named them and their fathers.” He replied, “What harm is there in my saying ‘O company of reciters’? Shall I not tell you about your brothers whom, in the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, we used to call ‘the Reciters’?”
Anas then mentioned seventy men from the Anṣār: when night fell hard, they would gather around a teacher in Madinah and spend the night studying. At daybreak, those who had physical strength would go out to collect firewood and fetch sweet water, and those who had means would provide