Gardens of the Righteous — Page 181
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 181 968. Anas relates that the Holy Prophet said: You should make it a rule. to travel by night for the earth is folded during the night (Abu Daud). 969. Abu Tha'labah Khushini relates that on making camp people would scatter among dunes and valleys till the Holy Prophet said: Your dispersing among these dunes and valleys is from Satan. Thereafter when they made camp they kept close to one another (Abu Daud). 970. Sa'ad ibn Amr relates that the Holy Prophet passed by a camel whose belly was sticking to his back whereupon he said: Be mindful of your duty to Allah in respect of these dumb animals. Ride them while they are in good condition and slaughter them and eat their meat when they are in good condition (Abu Daud). 971. Abdullah ibn Ja'afar relates: The Holy Prophet made me ride pillion with him one day and confided something to me which I shall never disclose to anyone. I pride myself that he did not screen himself from me behind a wall or the trunk of a date palm. To this Barqani has added: Then the Holy Prophet entered a garden belonging to an Ansari and saw therein a camel which, when it perceived his presence, groaned and its eyes began to run. The Holy Prophet approached it and patted it on the hump and the base of its head; and inquired: Who is the owner of this camel? To whom does it belong? An Ansari youth came forward and said: Messenger of Allah, it is mine. He said: Do you not fear Allah in the matter of these beasts of which He has made you owner? This camel complains to me that you starve it and work it hard (Abu Daud). 972. Anas relates: When we made camp we unsaddled our beasts before saying our Prayers. 168. . On Helping a Companion 973. This hadith is the same as No. 569. 974. Jabir relates that when he was preparing for an expedition the Holy. Prophet addressed us: 0 ye company of Emigrants and Helpers, there are among you people who have no money and no kinsfolk, then let every one of you associate with himself two or three of them for there is nothing for it but that everyone should ride a mount one by one in turn. So I associated two or three with me and I rode my camel turn by turn equally with them (Abu. Daud). 975. Jabir relates that the Holy Prophet always brought up the rear so as to help drive the weaker animals faster, to give a lift to pedestrians and to pray for them (Abu Daud).