Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 670-1b
Safiyyah b. Huyay
" مَا رَأَيْتُ قَطُّ أَحْسَنَ خُلُقًا مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ لَقَدْ أَرْدَفَنِي عَلى عَجُزِ نَاقَتِهِ لَيْلًا فَجَعَلْتُ أَنْعَسُ فَيُمْسِكُنِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِيَدِهِ فَيَقُولُ: يَا هَذِهِ مَهْلًا يَا بِنْتَ حُيَيْ، وَجَعَلَ يَقُولُ: يَا صَفِيَّة! إِنِّي أَعْتَذِرُ إِلَيْكِ عَمَّ صَنعْتُ بِقَوْمِكِ، إِنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لِي كَذَا، إِنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لِي كَذَا".
Translation
✧ "I have never seen anyone with better manners than the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He once asked me to accompany him on a night journey, and I felt sleepy. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ held my hand to wake me up and said, 'O Huyay, wait a minute, O daughter of Huwayy.' Then he said, 'O Safiyya! I apologize to you for what your people have said to me. They said such and such to me, they said such and such to me.'"
Notes
[ع] أبو يعلى [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[ʿayn] Abū Yaʿlā; [kāf-rā] Ibn ʿAsākir in his Tārīkh.
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