Mukhtasar Bukhari

Sayyiduna Imran bin Husain (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We were on a journey with the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and we traveled at night until, when it was the end of the night, we stopped to rest and everyone slept, and for a traveler, there is no sleep sweeter than this. Then the heat of the sun woke us up. The first to wake up was such-and-such a person, then such-and-such a person, then Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was the fourth to wake up. And when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) slept, no one would wake him until he woke up himself, because we did not know what was happening to him in his dreams. But when Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) woke up and saw the state that had overcome the people—and he was a strict-natured man—he said the takbir and raised his voice with the takbir, and kept raising his voice with the takbir until, because of his voice, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) woke up. When he woke up, the people complained to him about the difficulty that had befallen them. So he said: "No harm," or (he said): "It will not harm you. Let us go (because this was not intentional)." Then they set out and after going a short distance, they stopped and water for ablution was brought, then he performed ablution and the call to prayer was given, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) led the people in prayer. When he finished the prayer, suddenly he saw a man sitting in a corner who had not prayed with the people. So he said: "O so-and-so! What prevented you from praying with the people?" He said: "I became junub (in a state of major ritual impurity) and there was no water." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then use the earth (perform tayammum), it is sufficient for you." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) set out, and the people complained to him of thirst. So he stopped again and called a man and called Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "Both of you go and search for water." So both of them set out and met a woman who was sitting on her camel between two water skins. They asked her: "Where is water?" She said: "I was at the water yesterday at this time, and our men have stayed behind." They said to her: "Well, come now." She said: "Where?" They said: "To the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." She said: "That man who is called irreligious?" They said: "Yes, the very one you think (so), come on." So they brought her to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and described the whole situation to him. Sayyiduna Imran (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Then the people made her dismount from her camel, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked for a vessel (i.e., a container), and opened the mouths of both water skins and poured some water from them into that vessel. (After that) he closed the upper mouths and opened the lower mouths and called out among the people: "Drink water and give your animals to drink." Whoever wished, drank, and whoever wished, gave to drink, and in the end, the one who had become junub was given a vessel of water, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Go and pour it over yourself." And the woman was standing, watching all that was being done with her water, and by Allah, when they stopped taking water from her water skins, it was as if, in our opinion, they were even fuller than when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had started taking water from them. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Gather something for her." So the people gathered for her some Ajwa dates, flour, and sattu (roasted barley meal), etc., until a good amount of food was collected for her, and it was tied in a cloth and placed in front of her on her camel. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: "You know that we have not diminished anything from your water, but Allah is the One who gave us to drink." Then the woman returned to her people, as she had been delayed on the way. They said: "Who detained you?" She said: (An amazing thing happened) "Two men met me and took me to that man who is called irreligious, and he did such-and-such." By Allah, surely that man is either the greatest magician between this and that (i.e., between the heavens and the earth)—and she gestured with her index and middle fingers and raised them towards the sky, meaning the heavens and the earth—or he is truly the Messenger of Allah. After that, the Muslims kept fighting the idolaters around her area, and the settlement (village) in which the woman lived. Then one day she said to her people: "I think that these people are deliberately leaving you alone, so do you have any inclination towards Islam?" So they accepted her advice and entered Islam.