The Messenger of Allah ﷺ mounted his mule and seated me behind him. Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ needed to relieve himself, he preferred a place screened by some barrier or a grove of palm trees. He entered the walled garden of one of the Ansar, and there was a watering camel inside. When the camel saw the Prophet ﷺ, it groaned and its eyes filled with tears. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ dismounted, wiped behind its ears and along its back, and it grew calm.He asked, "Who is the owner of this camel?"A young man from the Ansar came forward and said, "I am, Messenger of Allah."He said, "Will you not fear Allah regarding this animal that Allah has placed in your possession? It has complained to me that you starve it and overwork it."Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went on into the garden, relieved himself, and performed ablution. He came back with water dripping from his beard onto his chest, and he confided something to me that I will not tell anyone.We pressed him, urging him to share it with us, but he said, "I will not disclose the secret of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until I meet Allah."
حدثنا وهب بن جرير حدثنا أبي قال سمعت محمد بن أبي يعقوب يحدث عن الحسن بن سعد
ركب رسول الله ﷺ بغلته وأردفني خلفه وكان رسول الله ﷺ إذا تبرز كان أحب ما تبرز فيه هدف يستتر به أو حائش نخل فدخل حائطا لرجل من الأنصار فإذا فيه ناضح له فلما رأى النبي ﷺ حن وذرفت عيناه فنزل رسول الله ﷺ فمسح ذفراه وسراته فسكن فقال من رب هذا الجمل فجاء شاب من الأنصار فقال أنا فقال ألا تتقي الله في هذه البهيمة التي ملكك الله إياها فإنه شكاك إلي وزعم أنك تجيعه وتدئبه ثم ذهب رسول الله ﷺ في الحائط فقضى حاجته ثم توضأ ثم جاء والماء يقطر من لحيته على صدره فأسر إلي شيئا لا أحدث به أحدا فحرجنا عليه أن يحدثنا فقال لا أفشي على رسول الله ﷺ سره حتى ألقى الله
Its chain of transmission is sahih. "Wahb bin Jareer" appears in manuscript H as "Wahb bin Jareej," which is an error. We corrected it from manuscript K, and he is Wahb bin Jareer bin Hazim.Al-nadih is the camel used for drawing water."Fa harajna alayhi an yuhaddithana" (so we pressed him to narrate to us) means we insisted upon him and pressed him, from al-haraj, meaning constriction.The hadith is given at greater length at 1745.