Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stopped at a campsite, the companions would look for the largest tree they could see and set it aside for the Prophet ﷺ, so he would rest beneath it while they settled afterward in the shade of the other trees.Once, while he was resting under a tree with his sword hung upon it, an Arabi came, took the sword down from the tree, then approached the Prophet ﷺ while he was asleep and woke him.He said, "Muhammad, who will protect you from me tonight?"The Prophet ﷺ replied, "Allah."Then Allah revealed, "Messenger, convey what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and if you do not, then you have not conveyed His message. Allah will protect you from the people" [Maidah 5:67].
كان رسول الله ﷺ إذا نزل منزلا، نظروا أعظم شجرة يرونها، فجعلوها للنبي ﷺ، فينزل تحتها وينزل أصحابه بعد ذلك في ظل الشجر، فبينما هو نازل تحت شجرة وقد علق السيف عليها إذ جاء أعرابي فأخذ السيف من الشجرة ثم دنا من النبي ﷺ وهو نائم فأيقظه فقال: يا محمد من يمنعك مني الليلة؟ فقال النبي ﷺ: الله فأنزل الله: {يأيها الرسول بلغ ما أنزل إليك من ربك وإن لم تفعل فما بلغت رسالته والله يعصمك من الناس}.
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Ibn Hibban narrated it in his Sahih, as found in Mawarid Zaman (1739), from Abdullah bin Muhammad Azdi, who said, Ishaq bin Ibrahim Hanzali narrated to us, Muammal bin Ismail informed us, Hammad bin Salama narrated to us, Muhammad bin Amr narrated to us, from Abu Salama, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it. Its chain is hasan. It contains Muammal bin Ismail, who has poor memory, and his hadith is graded hasan when corroborated. Adam did corroborate him, from Hammad bin Salama, as recorded by Ibn Mardawayh, as mentioned in the tafsir of Ibn Kathir (3/155).A note, I did not find this hadith in the printed edition of "Sahih Ibn Hibban bi-Tartib Ibn Balban," but it is present in the original "Sahih Ibn Hibban," because Ibn Hajar also mentioned it in Ithaf Mahra (20667), as Haythami likewise mentioned it in "al-Mawarid." It may be that the verse was mentioned here as a proof text, and the narrator then made it appear connected to the occasion of revelation.Something of similar meaning was reported from Jadah bin Khalid Sammah Jushami, who said, I heard the Prophet ﷺ, when he saw a fat man, gesture with his hand toward the man's belly, saying, "If this had gone elsewhere, it would have been better for you." He said, and a man was brought to the Prophet ﷺ, and they said, "This is the one who wanted to kill you." The Prophet ﷺ said to him, "Do not be afraid, do not be afraid. Had you intended that, Allah would not have given you power over me."Ahmad narrated it (15868), as did Tabarani in al-Kabir (2/284), Hakim (4/121–122), and Bayhaqi in Shuab al-Iman (5278–5279), all of them through routes from Shuba, who said, I heard Abu Israil say, I heard Jadah relate it. The wording given is Ahmad's, and some of them only related the first part. Hakim said, "The chain is sahih."I say, Abu Israil Jushami, the freedman of Jadah Jushami, whose name was Shuayb, was narrated from only by Shuba. No one deemed him reliable except that Ibn Hibban mentioned him among his trustworthy narrators. That is why Ibn Hajar said in Taqrib, "Acceptable," meaning when corroborated, and I have not found any corroborator for him.As for Haythami's statement in "al-Majma" (8/226–227), "Its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except for Abu Israil Jushami, who is trustworthy," this rests on his reliance on Ibn Hibban's assessment of reliability.