Volume 3, Book 33, Number 251:
Narrated Ali bin Al-Husain:
Volume 3 – 461 / 1700
SAHIH BUKHARI VOLUME 3 > BOOK 33: RETIRING TO A MOSQUE FOR REMEMBRANCE OF ALLAH (I’TIKAF)
Safiya, the wife of the Prophet told me that she went to Allah’s Apostle to visit him in the mosque
while he was in Itikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. She had a talk with him for a while, then she
got up in order to return home. The Prophet accompanied her. When they reached the gate of the
mosque, opposite the door of Um-Salama, two Ansari men were passing by and they greeted Allah’s
Apostle . He told them: Do not run away! And said, “She is (my wife) Safiya bint Huyai.” Both of them
said, “Subhan Allah, (How dare we think of any evil) O Allah’s Apostle!” And they felt it. The Prophet
said (to them), “Satan reaches everywhere in the human body as blood reaches in it, (everywhere in
one’s body). I was afraid lest Satan might insert an evil thought in your minds.”