Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33916 — What Allah the Exalted gave Muhammad

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I went out with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) on a journey, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would not go to relieve himself until he had gone so far that he could not be seen. We halted on a bare plain with no tree or mound in it. He said: O Jabir, put water in your vessel, then come along with us. He said: We went on until we could not be seen, and there he saw two trees with a distance of four cubits between them. He said: O Jabir, go to this tree and say to it: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) says to you: Join your companion tree so that I may sit behind you. So that tree joined the other, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sat behind them. Then they went back to their places. (2) Then we mounted, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was among us, and it was as though birds were shading over our heads. A woman met us who had her boy with her. She said: O Messenger of Allah, Satan seizes this son of mine several times every day. He stopped for her, took the boy and placed him between himself and the front of the camel saddle. Then he said: Be gone, O enemy of Allah; I am the Messenger of Allah. He said this three times, then gave the boy to the woman. When we returned from that journey we passed that place, and the woman came before us with two rams that she was driving. She said: O Messenger of Allah, accept these from me. By the One who sent you with the truth, it has not come back to him. He said: Take one from her and return the other. (3) He said: Then we went on, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was among us, and it was as though birds were shading over our heads. Suddenly a camel came running between the two rows and fell down in prostration. the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sat down and said: O people, who is the owner of this camel? It turned out to be some young men of the Ansar. They said: O Messenger of Allah, it is ours. He said: What is its condition? They said: We have used it to draw water for twenty years, and there is some fat on it, so we wanted to slaughter it and divide it among our slaves, but it got away from us. He said: Will you sell it? They said: No; rather, O Messenger of Allah, it is a gift to you. He said: If you do not wish to sell it, then treat it well until its death comes.