—Who sent you with the truth, it is exactly as the camel claims.’

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then said to him, ‘Sell it to me.’

He replied, ‘Certainly, O Messenger of Allah.’ So the Prophet bought it from him and released it to graze among the trees until its hump filled out again. Whenever any of the Muhājirīn or Anṣār had trouble with one of their watering camels, he would give them this camel, and it continued in that service for some time.

This ḥadīth has corroborating chains. The compilers of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections have recorded from it the incident of the two trees, the story of the man who brandished a sword at the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, As for the story of the bird,