A stranger incident than this is that a man [1] came to us in the night with a closed flask full of honey paste but I disliked it as though it was the saliva of a serpent or its vomit. I asked him whether it was a reward, or zakāt (poor-tax) or charity, for these are forbidden to us members of the Prophet’s family. He said it was neither this nor that but a present. Then I said, “Childless women may weep over you. Have you come to deviate me from the religion of Allāh, or are you mad, or have you been overpowered by some jinn, or are you speaking without senses?”