Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 1728

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، أَنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ، كَانَ يُرْدِفُ مَوْلاَةً لَهُ يُقَالُ لَهَا صَفِيَّةُ تُسَافِرُ مَعَهُ إِلَى مَكَّةَ ‏.‏

Translation

Nasr ibn Ali narrated to us; Abu Ahmad narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from Ubayd Allah, from Nafi: Ibn Umar used to take a freedwoman of his, called Safiyyah, behind him as she traveled with him to Mecca.