ʿAbd al-Razzāq also transmitted the narration (1) from Maʿmar, from Qatādah.

Al-Bukhārī said (2): “Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl related to us; ʿAbd al-Wāḥid informed us, from ʿĀṣim, from Abū ʿUthmān, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, who said:

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ campaigned against Khaybar—or, he said, when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out for Khaybar—the people came to the edge of a valley and raised their voices with the takbīr, proclaiming, ‘Allah is Most Great! Allah is Most Great! There is no deity but Allah.’

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
‘Moderate your voices; you are not calling upon One who is deaf or absent. You are calling upon One Who hears, is near, and is with you.’

I was riding directly behind the mount of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he heard me saying, ‘There is no power and no strength except through Allah.’

He said, ‘O ʿAbd Allāh ibn Qays.’

I replied, ‘At your service, O Messenger of Allah.’

He said, ‘Shall I not guide you to a phrase that is a treasure from the treasures of Paradise?’

I said, ‘Certainly, O Messenger of Allah—may my father and mother be ransomed for you.’

He said, ‘There is no power and no strength except through Allah.’”

The rest of the canonical compilers (3) also recorded this report through various chains from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mall—Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī—from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī. The correct view is that it took place on their return from Khaybar, for Abū Mūsā did not arrive until after the fortress had been conquered, as stated earlier.

Ibn Isḥāq (4) said: It has reached me that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ captured Khaybar he granted Ibn Laqīm al-ʿAbsī whatever poultry or other livestock it contained; the conquest of Khaybar occurred in the month of Ṣafar. Ibn Laqīm composed the following lines on that victory:

Natat was struck by a legion from the Prophet—
gleaming white, broad-shouldered, solid of spine.
Convinced of disgrace once the siege closed in,
Aslam and Ghifār’s men pressed hard within.
At dawn I surprised the sons of ʿAmr ibn Zurʿah;
for the folk of al-Shaqq the noon turned black.
Its skirts dragged across the valley floor till naught remained
save chickens crying in the pre-dawn gloom.
Before every fortress a squadron of their cavalry stood—
men of ʿAbd al-Ashhal or the clan of al-Najjār.
And the Emigrants, their marks upon their helmets,
never so much as thought of turning back.
I knew full well that Muḥammad would prevail
and would return to seize it in the month of Ṣafar.
Then the Jews fled headlong amid the clash,
their eyes veiled beneath the swirling dust.