This event took place as follows: After some men of the tribe Awus had done such a handsome service [to the cause of Islâm by slaying Ka’b], the people of Khazraj likewise desired to kill an enemy of the Faith, and an equal of Ka’b, so as to augment their merit. After some consideration they hit upon the idea to kill Abu Râfi’, the brother of Kanânah B. Abu-l-haqyq, the husband of Ssafyah; and something about Kanânah will be mentioned in the record of the battle of Khayber. This Abu Râfi’ had aided the idolaters with his property to fight his holy and prophetic lordship—u. w. b.—and he possessed a fort near the country of Hejâz in the vicinity of Khayber. In the execution of the just-mentioned design of the Khazrajis, A’bdullah B. A’tbak, A’bdullah B. Anys, and Abu Qobâdah, with two other companions, conspired, and asked permission from his lordship to go to Khayber. After obtaining it, these five noble-hearted individuals started with the blessing of God, and reached the place at sunset, when the cattle of Abu Râfi’ were returning to the fort from their pasture. Then Ebn A’tbak said to his friends: ‘Wait ye in this place till I go and flatter the gatekeeper to obtain admission.’ As his lordship the seat of apostleship— u. w. b.—had appointed A’bdullah B. A’tbak to be the leader of these four companions, they obeyed his injunction, and remained without the fort. When A’bdullah arrived near the fort, he threw the skirts of his garment over his head and sat down, as if answering a call of nature. At that time the people were accustomed to return to the fort after terminating their avocations of the day; hence the gatekeeper thought A’bdullah to be one of them, and said to him: ‘Make haste to enter, because the day is spent, and I shall close the gate.’ A’bdullah then went into the fort, and the keeper of the gate closed it; A’bdullah had, however, watched where he had placed the key, and perceived that he suspended it, according to his usual habit, upon a nail. A’bdullah took the key as soon as the porter had gone to bed, and opened the gate, so as to have a ready outlet in case he should be obliged to flee. Then he went in search of Abu Râfi’, and discovered that he was awake in the upper chambers of his fort, having a story-teller to amuse him. A’bdullah waited till the story was terminated, and Abu Râfi’, unaware that a more strange story was awaiting him, fell asleep. Then A’bdullah opened the doors of the upper chambers and locked them again from within. He continued thus till he reached the chamber in which Abu Râfi’ was sleeping; but as the family of the latter were also in the same dark apartment, and he knew not where his sleeping place was, A’bdullah exclaimed: ‘O Abu Râfi’.’ The latter awoke, and in his alarm asked: ‘Who is that?’ Then A’bdullah dealt blows with his sword in the direction of the voice, but ineffectually, as he was too hasty. Therefore he went out, and, returning after awhile, he said in an altered voice: ‘O Abu Râfi’, what voice was that?’ And the latter replied: ‘Woe to us and to thee! In this chamber a man has struck me with a sword.’ Then A’bdullah again gave him a blow, which, however, was insufficient to kill him; accordingly he placed the sabre on the man’s abdomen, leaning on it with all his might, so that it came out at his back. Then A’bdullah departed, but fell from the ladder and broke his leg. This he bandaged with his turban, and limped with his other foot till he came out from the fort and met his friends. These men nevertheless remained long enough near the fort to hear its inmates exclaim: ‘Abu Râfi’ the merchant has been killed.’ Then they took up A’bdullah and started to Madinah. When they arrived there they made haste to wait upon his holy and prophetic lordship, and informed him that Abu Râfi’ had been slain. That prince was very glad, and stroked with his blessed hand the broken leg of A’bdullah, to whom God the Most High granted a speedy recovery. When A’bdullah was again on his legs, the Jews dwelling in the vicinity, who had heard of his case, were much distressed, and said: ‘What kind of fellows are these adherents of Muhammad who kill people in strongholds with closed doors?’ Let it not remain hidden that most authors of biographies and of histories have related the manner of the murder of Râfi’ in another way; that, however, which has been recorded in these pages is based on the correct tradition of Bokhâry. Nevertheless the [true] knowledge is with Allah.