664 – On the authority of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh (may Allah be pleased with him): “I was riding a camel of mine that had grown so weak that I thought of turning it loose. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) caught up with me, invoked blessing for me, and struck the camel. It moved off at a speed it had never shown before. He then said, ‘Will you sell it to me for one ūqiyyah?’ I replied, ‘No.’ He asked again, ‘Sell it to me,’ so I sold it to him for an ūqiyyah on the condition that I could continue riding it until I reached my family. When I arrived, I brought the camel to him and he paid me its price in cash. I left, but he sent someone after me and said, ‘Do you think I bargained with you only to take your camel? Keep your camel and your dirhams; they are both yours.’” Agreed upon, and this wording is Muslim’s (1).

— Vocabulary —
• jamal (camel): al-Farrāʾ said it is the male of the she-camel; its plurals are jimāl, ajmāl, and jamalāt.
• aʿyā (became exhausted): with fatḥa on the hamza and sukūn on the ʿayn; it means to grow weary and unable to proceed. The verb is used both intransitively (aʿyā) and transitively (aʿyāhu Allāh); the form ʿiyā (without hamza) is incorrect.
• yusayyibahu (to set it free): with ḍamma on the initial yāʾ, fatḥa on the sīn, and a shadda on the following yāʾ; a verb in the tafʿīl pattern meaning that he intended to abandon it and let it go wherever it wished.
• ūqiyyah (an ūqiyyah): with ḍamma on the initial hamza, kasra on the qāf, and shadda on the yāʾ. Al-Bukhārī’s narration omits the hamza (“wqiyyah”); al-ʿAynī notes that this is not refined Arabic. One ūqiyyah equals forty Islamic dirhams; each dirham is half a mithqāl plus one-fifth of a mithqāl, and a mithqāl is approximately 4.25 grams.