She came to visit the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was in spiritual retreat at the mosque during the last ten days of Ramadan. She spoke with him for a while in the evening, then got up to leave. The Prophet ﷺ rose with her to escort her back. When she reached the gate of the mosque near the dwelling of Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, two men from the Ansar passed by them. They greeted the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and continued on their way.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called out to them, "Slow down. This is Safiya bint Huyayy."They replied, "Glory be to Allah, Messenger of Allah!" They were greatly disturbed by what he had said.He said, "Satan flows through the son of Adam like the flow of blood, and I feared he might cast something into your hearts."
أنها جاءت رسول الله ﷺ تزوره، وهو معتكف في المسجد في العشر الغوابر من رمضان، فتحدثت عنده ساعة من العشاء، ثم قامت تنقلب، فقام معها النبي ﷺ يقلبها حتى إذا بلغت باب المسجد الذي عند مسكن أم سلمة زوج النبي ﷺ، مر بهما رجلان من الأنصار، فسلما على رسول الله ﷺ، ثم نفذا، فقال لهما رسول الله ﷺ: على رسلكما، إنما هي صفية بنت حيي. قالا: سبحان الله يا رسول الله، وكبر عليهما ما قال، قال: إن الشيطان يجري من ابن آدم مبلغ الدم وإني خشيت أن يقذف في قلوبكما.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Manners (6219) and Muslim in the Book of Greetings (25/2175), both through Abu Yaman, who said, "Shuayb informed us, from Zuhri, who said, 'Ali bin Husayn informed us that Safiya, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, informed him,'" and he related it. Ibn Khuzayma said, "This hadith is evidence that it is permissible for a wife to converse with her husband at night during his seclusion, and that is precisely what is meant by nighttime conversation."It is narrated from Ayesha that she said, "One night the Messenger of Allah ﷺ told his wives a story. One of the women said, 'Messenger of Allah, this story is like the story of Khurafa!' He said, 'Do you know what Khurafa is? Khurafa was a man from Udhra whom the jinn seized during the Age of Ignorance. He remained among them for a long while, then they returned him to mankind, and he would tell people about the wondrous things he had seen among them. So people would say, "A story of Khurafa."'"Imam Ahmad narrated it (25244), as did Tirmidhi in Shamail (250), Bazzar in Kashf Astar (2475), and Abu Yaala (4442), all through Abu Nadr, who said, "Abu Aqeel, meaning Thaqafi, narrated to us, 'Mujalid bin Saeed narrated to us, from Amir, from Masruq, from Ayesha,'" and he related it. Mujalid bin Saeed, Abu Amr Kufi, is daif. Nasai, Ibn Saad, and Ibn Hibban graded him daif. Ibn Main said, "He should not be relied upon as evidence." Bukhari, however, held a favorable opinion of him.Ibn Jawzi included it in Ilal Mutanahiya through the route of Imam Ahmad, and faulted it because of him, saying, "Mujalid is worthless. Ibn Hibban said, 'He used to switch the chains of transmission and turn incomplete chains into connected ones, so it is not permissible to rely on him.'" There was then disagreement as to whether the chain was connected or incomplete.Daraqutni said in Ilal (292/14), "Mujalid narrates it, and there is disagreement over him. Abu Aqeel Thaqafi, whose name is Abdullah bin Aqeel, one of the trustworthy narrators, narrated it from Mujalid, from Shaybi, from Masruq, from Ayesha. Ahmad bin Abu Budayl said likewise, from Abu Usama, from Mujalid. Others narrate it from Abu Usama, from Mujalid, from Shaybi, with an incomplete chain. And the version with the incomplete chain is more likely to be correct."