Volume 4, Book 52, Number 288:
Narrated Said bin Jubair:
Ibn ‘Abbas said, “Thursday! What (great thing) took place on Thursday!” Then he started weeping
till his tears wetted the gravels of the ground . Then he said, “On Thursday the illness of Allah’s
Apostle was aggravated and he said, “Fetch me writing materials so that I may have something writ –
ten to you after which you will never go astray.” The people (present there) differed in this matter
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and people should not differ before a prophet. They said, “Allah’s Apostle is seriously sick.’ The
Prophet said, “Let me alone, as the state in which I am now, is better than what you are calling me
for.” The Prophet on his death-bed, gave three orders saying, “Expel the pagans from the Arabian
Peninsula, respect and give gifts to the foreign delegates as you have seen me dealing with them.” I
forgot the third (order)” (Ya’qub bin Muhammad said, “I asked Al-Mughira bin ‘Abdur-Rahman
about the Arabian Peninsula and he said, ‘It comprises Mecca, Medina, Al-Yama-ma and Yemen.”
Ya’qub added, “And Al-Arj, the beginning of Tihama.”)