my hatred of you and my love for him will never lead me to treat you unjustly.” They answered, “It is by this that the heavens and the earth are sustained.”

He went on: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ noticed a greenish mark in Ṣafiyyah’s eye and asked, “What is this?” She replied, “My head was in the lap of Ibn Abī al-Ḥuqayq while I was asleep, and I dreamed that a moon fell into my lap. When I told him, he slapped me and said, ‘Are you hoping to marry the ruler of Yathrib?’ At that time the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was the most hated of people to me—he had killed my father and my husband—but he kept apologising, saying, ‘Your father roused the Arabs against me and did such-and-such,’ until the feeling left my heart.”

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to allot each of his wives 80 wasqs of dates and 20 wasqs of barley every year.

When ʿUmar’s caliphate came, the Jews betrayed the Muslims and threw Ibn ʿUmar from the roof of a house, dislocating his hands. ʿUmar therefore proclaimed, “Whoever holds a share at Khaybar, let him come,” and he divided the land among them. Their leader protested, “Do not expel us; let us remain here as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Abū Bakr allowed us.” ʿUmar replied, “Do you imagine I have forgotten the words of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: ‘How will it be with you when your mount races with you until it drops you on the borders of Syria one day, then the next, then the next?’” ʿUmar then apportioned Khaybar among those who had witnessed it from the people of al-Ḥudaybiyah.

Al-Bukhārī cited this report in his work, adding: “It was also narrated by Ḥammād ibn Salamah.”

Abū Aḥmad al-Marrār ibn Ḥamwayh said: Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Kinānī narrated to us, from Mālik, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: When the injury occurred at Khaybar, ʿUmar rose to address the people, saying, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ contracted the Jews of Khaybar concerning their property, saying, ‘We will keep you so long as Allah keeps you.’ And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar went out to Khaybar without any property there…"