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The Prophet in al-Madînah. Says Aḥmad ibn-Yaḥya ibn-Jâbir:—

I have been informed by certain men learned in tradition, biography, and the conquest of the lands, whose narratives I transmitted, abridged and pieced up together into one whole, that when the Messenger of Allah emigrated from Makkah to al-Madînah he was entertained as the guest of Kalthûm ibn-Hidm ibn-Amru’i-l-Ḳais ibn-al-Ḥarîth ibn-Zaid ibn-‘Ubaid ibn-Umaiyah ibn-Zaid ibn-Mâlik ibn-‘Auf ibn-‘Amr ibn-‘Auf ibn-Mâlik ibn-al-Aus in Ḳubâ’. So much, however, of his discourse was carried on in the home of Sa‘d ibn-Khaithamah ibn-al-Ḥârith ibn-Mâlik of [the tribe of] banu-as-Sâlim ibn-Amru’i-l-Ḳais ibn-Mâlik ibn-al-Aus that some thought he was the guest of the latter.

Ḳubâ’ Mosque. Of the Companions of the Prophet, the early Emigrants together with those of the Anṣâr who had joined him had already built a mosque at Ḳubâ’ to pray in, prayer at the time being directed towards Bait-al-Maḳdis [Jerusalem]. Now, when the Prophet arrived in