“Estimate how much it will yield.” So we made an estimate, and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, put the figure at ten wasqs. He said, “Keep a record of it until we come back to you, if Allah—Most High—wills.”

We then set out and, when we reached Tabuk, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Tonight a fierce wind will blow. Let no one stand up in it; and whoever owns a camel should fasten its hobble.” A violent wind indeed arose, and a man stood up; the wind carried him off until it dropped him on Mount Tayyʾ.

Imam Aḥmad also relates—on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās—that the one who captured al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was Abū al-Yasar ibn ʿAmr, who is Kaʿb ibn ʿAmr, one of