Volume 4, Book 53, Number 333:
Narrated Safiya:
(the wife of the Prophet) That she came to visit Allah’s Apostle while he was in Itikaf(i.e. seclusion
in the Mosque during the last ten days of Ramadan. When she got up to return, Allah’s Apostle got
up with her and accompanied her, and when he reached near the gate of the Mosque close to the
door (of the house) of Um Salama, the wife of the Prophet, two Ansari men passed by them and
greeted Allah’s Apostle and then went away. Allah’s Apostle addressed them saying, “Don’t hurry!
(She is my wife),” They said, “Glorified be Allah! O Allah’s Apostle (You are far away from any suspi –
cion),” and his saying was hard on them. Allah’s Apostle said, “Satan circulates in the mind of a per –
son as blood does (in his body). I was afraid that Satan might put some (evil) thoughts in your
minds.”