they charged, and not a single man escaped; ten of them were killed, the rest were taken captive, and only one Muslim was killed.

Ibn ʿAwn said: “I wrote to Nāfiʿ asking him about making supplication before battle, and he wrote back: ‘That practice belonged only to the earliest days of Islam. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ raided Banū al-Muṣṭaliq while they were off their guard and their livestock were drinking at the watering place; he killed their fighting men and carried off their captives. On that day he obtained—he said, I think he said: Juwayriya. Ibn ʿUmar told me that, and he was in that army.’” Agreed upon.

Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar transmitted—through Rabīʿa al-Raʾy, Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ḥibbān, and Ibn Muḥayrīz—who heard Abū Saʿīd say: “We campaigned with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ against Banū al-Muṣṭaliq and captured some of the noblest women of the Arabs. We had gone a long time without women and were hoping for ransom, so we wanted to enjoy them yet practise withdrawal. We asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about it and he said: ‘It will not harm you if you do not withdraw, for every soul that Allah has decreed to exist until the Day of Resurrection will surely come into being.’” Agreed upon; this version is narrated by Qutaybah from Ismāʿīl.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ married Juwayriya:

Yūnus related from Ibn Isḥāq—who said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr told me, on the authority of ʿUrwa, from ʿĀʾisha—who said: “When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ distributed the captives of Banū al-Muṣṭaliq, Juwayriya fell by lot to Thābit ibn Qays ibn Shamās, or to a cousin of his, and she arranged a contract of manumission with him for herself. She was a pleasant and strikingly beautiful woman; no one saw her without being taken by her. She came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ seeking his help with her contract, and—by Allah—it was no sooner than…"