like what befell them.’ Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ covered his head with his cloak while still on the saddle and rode quickly until he had crossed the valley.

This ḥadīth is reported from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr (may Allah be pleased with him) and reaches us from him through three chains.

1. The first is through ʿAbdullāh ibn Dīnār; the portion traced back to the Prophet ﷺ comes by way of that chain. Al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and Aḥmad—whose wording is cited here—have all recorded it, as has al-Bayhaqī through several routes, and some of Aḥmad’s isnāds are thulāthī (containing only three transmitters between him and the Prophet).

   In another narration in al-Bukhārī, related by Sulaymān—meaning Ibn Bilāl—from ʿAbdullāh ibn Dīnār, the wording is:

   “When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ camped at al-Ḥijr during the Tabūk expedition, he ordered the people not to drink from its well or draw water from it. They said, ‘We have already kneaded dough with its water and drawn some for ourselves.’ He therefore commanded them to throw away that dough and pour out that water.”

2. The second route is through Nāfiʿ, with the wording:

   “During the year of Tabūk the Messenger of Allah ﷺ halted the people at al-Ḥijr, the dwellings of Thamūd. They drew water from the wells from which Thamūd used to drink; they kneaded dough with it and set cooking pots filled with meat on the fire. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered them, so they poured it all away and fed the kneaded dough to the camels. He then moved on with them until he stopped at the well from which the she-camel used to drink, and he forbade them to enter upon the people who had been punished, saying, ‘I fear that…’”} (remaining text continues on the next page)