and he told me: Simāk ibn Ḥarb—on the authority of Jābir ibn Samurah—who said:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘I know a stone in Mecca that used to greet me before I was commissioned; I still recognize it today.’”

Muslim recorded this ḥadīth (1) through Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah (2), from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Bukayr, with the same chain. Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī (3) also transmitted it from Sulaymān ibn Muʿādh, from Simāk, with identical wording.

Another report:

Al-Tirmidhī (4) said: “ʿAbbād ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kūfī related to us; al-Walīd ibn Abī Thawr related to us, from al-Suddi, from ʿAbbād ibn Abī Yazīd, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:

‘I was with the Prophet ﷺ in Mecca. We went out to one of its outskirts, and not a single mountain or tree that met him failed to say, ‘Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah.’’”

He (al-Tirmidhī) then remarked, “This ḥadīth is ḥasan gharīb. It has been reported by more than one transmitter from al-Walīd ibn Abī Thawr, from ʿAbbād ibn Abī Yazīd; among them is Furwah ibn Abī al-Maghrāʾ (5).”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Nuʿaym likewise narrated it through Ziyād ibn Khaythamah, from al-Suddi, from Abū ʿAmmārah al-Khaywānī (6), from ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—who said:

“I went out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he would not pass by a tree or a stone without it greeting him.”

We have already mentioned, in the account of the beginning of his mission, that after he ﷺ had returned having received revelation, he would not pass by a stone, a tree, a clod of earth, or anything else without it saying to him, “Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah.”

We also referred, in the narratives of Badr and Ḥunayn, to his ﷺ casting a handful of dust and instructing his Companions to follow it with a decisive charge, whereupon victory, triumph, and divine support came swiftly thereafter. Concerning the Battle of Badr, Allah the Exalted says in Sūrat al-Anfāl: “You did not throw when you threw, but Allah threw.” (al-Anfāl 8:17)

As for the Battle of Ḥunayn, we cited the ḥadīths with their chains and exact wordings earlier, making repetition here unnecessary—praise and gratitude belong to Allah.

Another report:

We have already noted in the account of the Conquest that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the Sacred Mosque and found the idols surrounding