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accompany them any farther than a token distance.
Likewise, the historians of the Prophet’s military campaigns and others have reported that, when Ubayy ibn Khalaf
أَكُونَ مَعَهُمْ إِلَّا قَرِيبًا.
وَكَذَلِكَ مَا ذَكَرَهُ أَهْلُ الْمَغَازِي وَغَيْرُهُمْ «أَنَّ أُبَيَّ بْنَ خَلَفٍ لَمَّا