The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to stop beneath the large tree at Ruwaythah, on the right side of the road in a flat, sandy spot where the path comes down from the small hill, two miles before the postal station of Ruwaythah. Its top had broken off, but it still stood firm on its trunk.
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أن رسول الله ﷺ كان ينزل تحت سرحة الرويثة عن يمين الطريق في مكان بطح سهل حين يفضي من الأكمة دون بريد الرويثة بميلين وقد انكسر أعلاها وهي قائمة على ساق
Its isnad is sahih. It is a continuation of what preceded it.Al-sarhah means a great tree.Al-Ruwaythah, with the letters ra and tha (the latter with three dots) in diminutive form, is a large village. Between it and Madinah lies seventeen farsakhs. This is what the Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari.Batah, the Hafiz said, is with the ba pronounced with a fatha and the ta with a sakin, and it may also be pronounced with a kasra, meaning wide."Short of the postal station of al-Ruwaythah by two miles," the Hafiz said this means that between it and the place where the postal courier stops at al-Ruwaythah there are two miles. It has also been said that what is meant by "postal station" is the path of the road.As for his statement, "Its top had broken off," and so on, in the wording of Bukhari, "Its top had broken off and folded over into its middle, while it remained standing on its trunk, and on its trunk were many clumps."