Sahih al-Bukhari 2967

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed us; Jarir informed us from al-Mughira, from al-Sha'bi, from Jabir ibn 'Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said: I went on an expedition with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The Prophet caught up with me while I was riding one of our water camels, which had become exhausted and could barely move. He said to me, ‘What is the matter with your camel?’ I said, ‘It is worn out.’ The Messenger of Allah fell behind, urged it on, and prayed for it. It kept moving ahead of the camels, in front of them. He said to me, ‘How do you find your camel?’ I said, ‘Well; your blessing has reached it.’ He asked, ‘Will you sell it to me?’ I felt shy, since we had no water camel besides it, but I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Then sell it to me.’ I sold it to him on the condition that I could keep riding it until I reached Medina.

I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, I am newly married,’ and asked his permission to go ahead. He gave me permission, so I went ahead of the people toward Medina and reached it. My maternal uncle met me and asked me about the camel. I told him what I had done with it, and he blamed me. When I had asked the Messenger of Allah's permission, he had asked me, ‘Did you marry a virgin or a previously married woman?’ I said, ‘A previously married woman.’ He said, ‘Why did you not marry a virgin, so that you could play with her and she with you?’ I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, my father died—or was martyred—and I have young sisters. I did not want to marry someone like them, who would neither discipline them nor look after them, so I married a previously married woman so she could look after them and discipline them.’ When the Messenger of Allah arrived in Medina, I went to him the next morning with the camel. He gave me its price and returned it to me. Al-Mughira said: This is sound according to our judgments, and we see no harm in it.