Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith 22 – Volume 7, Book 62

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Volume 7, Book 62, Number 22:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet stayed for three days between Khaibar and Medina, and there he consummated his
marriage to Safiyya bint Huyai. I invited the Muslims to the wedding banquet in which neither meat
nor bread was offered. He ordered for leather dining-sheets to be spread, and dates, dried yoghurt
and butter were laid on it, and that was the Prophet's wedding banquet. The Muslims wondered, "Is
she (Saffiyya) considered as his wife or his slave girl?" Then they said, "If he orders her to veil herself,
she will be one of the mothers of the Believers; but if he does not order her to veil herself, she will be
a slave girl. So when the Prophet proceeded from there, he spared her a space behind him (on his
she-camel) and put a screening veil between her and the people.