Al-Lu'lu' wal-Marjan — Hadith #37024

Hadith of Jabir bin Abdullah, may God be pleased with them both. He said: We were in a raid, and a man from the immigrants stabbed a man from the Ansar! Al-Ansari said: O Ansar! The immigrants said: Oh the immigrants! Then the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, heard that and said: “What is the matter with this pre-Islamic claim?” They said: [p. 195] O Messenger of God! A man from the immigrants stabbed a man from the Ansar. He said: “Leave it, for it stinks.” Then Abdullah bin Ubayy heard about that and said: They did it? But by God! If we return to Medina, they will expel from it the more honorable and the meaner. Then the message was conveyed to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. Then Omar got up and said, O Messenger of God! Let me cut off the neck of this hypocrite. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Leave him.” People do not talk about Muhammad killing his companions.”