909 – Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “The Prophet ﷺ remained between Khaybar and Madinah for three nights while consummating his marriage to Safiyyah. I invited the Muslims to his wedding banquet. No bread or meat was served; he merely ordered that the leather mats be spread out, and dates, dried curd, and clarified butter were scattered over them.” Agreed upon, with the wording from al-Bukhari (1).

Glossary of the hadith:
– yubnā ʿalayhi (consummation): al-bināʾ denotes the wedding night. Ibn al-Athīr explains that al-bināʾ and al-istibnāʾ both refer to entering upon one’s wife. Originally, when a man married a woman he would erect a tent over her and enter to her inside it; hence the expression “the man built upon his family.” A tent was erected for the Prophet ﷺ when he consummated his marriage to Safiyyah.
– al-anṭāʿ: singular niṭʿ, with the nūn pronounced either with fatḥah or kasrah, and in both cases the ṭāʾ is fathah and the ʿayn silent, according to al-Miṣbāḥ. It is a mat made of sewn-together pieces of tanned leather.
– al-aqiṭ: dried curd—milk boiled until its moisture evaporates and it thickens, then formed into small cakes that are eaten either soft or hard.
– ḥays: a mixture of dates, dried curd, and clarified butter. Some narrations explicitly mention ḥays. Ibn Sīda said: ḥays is dried curd mixed with butter and dates; ḥāsa-hu ḥaysan and ḥayyasa-hu both mean “he mixed it.”