Volume 8, Book 75, Number 374:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said to Abu Talha, “Choose one of your boys to serve me.” So Abu Talha took me (to
serve the Prophet ) by giving me a ride behind him (on his camel). So I used to serve Allah’s Apostle
whenever he stayed somewhere. I used to hear him saying, “O Allah! I seek refuge with you (Allah)
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from (worries) care and grief, from incapacity and laziness, from miserliness and cowardice, from
being heavily in debt and from being overpowered by other men.” I kept on serving him till he re –
turned from (the battle of) Khaibar. He then brought Safiya, the daughter of Huyay whom he had got
(from the booty). I saw him making a kind of cushion with a cloak or a garment for her. He then let
her ride behind him. When we reached a place called As-Sahba’, he prepared (a special meal called)
Hais, and asked me to invite the men who (came and) ate, and that was the marriage banquet given
on the consummation of his marriage to her. Then he proceeded till the mountain of Uhud appeared,
whereupon he said, “This mountain loves us and we love it.” When he approached Medina, he said,
“O Allah! I make the land between its (i.e., Medina’s) two mountains a sanctuary, as the prophet Ab –
raham made Mecca a sanctuary. O Allah! Bless them (the people of Medina) in their Mudd and the
Sa’ (units of measuring).”