he was already on his way back, having reached the source of the sound before them and ascertained what had happened. He was riding an unsaddled horse that belonged to Abū Ṭalḥah, a sword hanging from his neck, and he kept saying, “Do not be afraid!” He also said, “We found it to be like a sea.” That horse had previously been sluggish, but from that night on no one could keep up with it.

In the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections it is reported from Ibn ʿAbbās: “The Messenger of Allah was the most generous of people, and he was never more generous than in Ramaḍān, when Gabriel would meet him and review the Qur’an with him. Indeed, the Messenger of Allah was more generous in good than the freely blowing wind.”

And in the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections it is related from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib who said: “We used to, whenever it turned red—”