106), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (17/524–532), and al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (9/145), through Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī, who said:
There was a man among the Anṣār named Abū Shuʿayb, who had a butcher’s servant. He said, “Prepare some food for me, so that I may invite the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, as one of five.” So he invited the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, as one of five, but a man followed them. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, then said: … He then related the hadith. The wording is that of al-Bukhārī. *
Among his miracles, peace and blessings be upon him, and the acts of valor of some of his Companions
- “You are like the one who said first: ‘O Allah, grant me a beloved who is dearer to me than my own self.’”
It was recorded by Muslim (5/190) through Iyās ibn Salamah, who said: My father related to me:
We arrived at al-Ḥudaybiyyah with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, fourteen hundred strong. There were fifty sheep there, and its water could not satisfy them. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then sat at the edge of the well, and either supplicated or spat into it. Its water then surged forth, and we drank and drew water from it. He said:
2—Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, summoned us to pledge allegiance beneath the tree. I was the first of the people to pledge allegiance to him. Then he continued receiving pledges, until, when he had reached the middle of the people, he said:
“Pledge allegiance, Salamah!”
I said, “I have already pledged allegiance to you, Messenger of Allah, among the first of the people!” He said, “And again.” He said:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, saw that I was unarmed—that is, carrying no weapon—so he gave me a small shield or a buckler. Then he continued receiving pledges until, when he had reached the last of the people, he said: