Volume 8, Book 75, Number 345:
Narrated Jarir:
Allah’s Apostle said to me. “Will you relieve me from Dhi-al-Khalasa? ” Dhi-al-Khalasa was an
idol which the people used to worship and it was called Al-Ka’ba al Yamaniyya. I said, “O Allah’s
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Apostle I am a man who can’t sit firm on horses.” So he stroked my chest (with his hand) and said, “O
Allah! Make him firm and make him a guiding and well-guided man.” So I went out with fifty (men)
from my tribe of Ahrnas. (The sub-narrator, Sufyan, quoting Jarir, perhaps said, “I went out with a
group of men from my nation.”) and came to Dhi-al-Khalasa and burnt it, and then came to the
Prophet and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I have not come to you till I left it like a camel with a skin dis –
ease.” The Prophet then invoked good upon Ahmas and their cavalry (fighters).