Chapter 33: Retiring to a Mosque for Remembrance of Allah (I'tikaf)
Narrated 'Ali bin Al-Husain: Safiya, the wife of the Prophet (ﷺ) told me that she went to Allah' s Messenger (ﷺ) to visit him in the mosque
while he was in I 'tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. She had a talk with him for a while, then she
got up in order to return home. The Prophet (ﷺ) accompanied her. When they reached the gate of the
mosque, opposite the door of Um-Salama, two Ansari men were passing by and they greeted Allah' s
Apostle. He told them: Do not run away! And said, "She is (my wife) Safiya bint Huyai." Both of
them said, "Subhan Allah, (How dare we think of any evil) O Allah' s Messenger (ﷺ)!" And they felt it. The
Prophet said (to them), "Satan reaches everywhere in the human body as blood reaches in it,
(everywhere in one' s body). I was afraid lest Satan might insert an evil thought in your minds."
Sahih al-Bukhari 2035