the Muslims had not dispatched either cavalry or mounted camels for it.

Hammād ibn Zayd narrated—from Thābit and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuhayb, from Anas—that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gained victory over the people of Khaybar he put the fighting men to death and took the women and children captive. Ṣafiyyah thus fell to Dihyah al-Kalbī, then she passed to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who married her and made her emancipation her bridal gift. Reported by al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated—from ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, from Anas—who said: The Prophet ﷺ spoke of Ṣafiyyah’s beauty; she had been a new bride and her husband had been killed, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ selected her for himself. When we reached Ṣad al-Ṣahbāʾ she had completed her waiting period, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ consummated the marriage with her. He prepared some ḥays (a mixture of dates, clarified butter, and cheese) on a small leather mat, and that was his wedding banquet.

I saw him gathering a cloak behind him for her, then sitting beside his camel and setting his knee so that Ṣafiyyah could place her foot on it and mount. When Mount Uḥud came into view, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “This is a mountain that loves us and we love it.”

Al-Bukhārī relates this ḥadīth at greater length, and Muslim also records it.

Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Kathīr said: Ḥumayd informed me, having heard Anas say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stayed between Khaybar and Madinah for three nights while he consummated his marriage with Ṣafiyyah. I invited the Muslims to the wedding feast of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. There was neither bread nor meat; he simply ordered that leather mats be spread and that dates, aqit (dried cheese curd), and clarified butter be placed upon them.

The Muslims then asked, “Is she one of the Mothers of the Believers, or does she belong to what his right hand possesses?” They said, “If he veils her, she is one of the Mothers of the Believers, and if…"