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arms to you" and this proved to be acceptable to Ka‟b. It was time to depart and
Maslama's son said he and his companions would return.

On the night of 14ᵗʰ Rabi‟1 3H, Muhammad Maslama's son and Abu Na'ila who was
Ka‟bs suckling brother together with Harith son of Aws and Abu Abs son of Jabr
returned. Ka‟b invited Maslama's son and Abu Na'ila into his fortress and then went
down with them. As they were going out Ka‟bs wife said, "I hear a voice as if blood is
dropping from him." Ka‟b rebuked her saying, "They are none other than my brother and
my foster brother Abu Na'ila, and a generous man ought to respond even to a night
visitation, even if he were to be invited to be killed!"

Beforehand, Maslama's son had told his companions, "when Ka‟b comes, I will touch his
hair as if smelling it, and when you see that I have taken hold of his head, strike him." A
short distance away from the fortress Maslama's son said to Ka‟b, "I have never smelled
a better perfume than that which you are wearing." Ka‟b replied, "Yes indeed, I have with
me a mistress who is the most perfumed women of Arabia." Then Maslama's son asked

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