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It has been narrated on the authority of Salim b. Abu al-Ja'd who said:I asked Jabir b. 'Abdullah about the number of the Companions (of the Prophet who took the oath of fealty under) the tree. He said: If we were a hundred thousand, it (i. e. the water in the well at Hudaibiya) would have sufficed us, but actually we were one thousand and five hundred

وحدثنا محمد بن المثنى، وابن، بشار قالا حدثنا محمد بن جعفر، حدثنا شعبة، عن عمرو بن مرة، عن سالم بن ابي الجعد، قال سالت جابر بن عبد الله عن اصحاب، الشجرة فقال لو كنا ماية الف لكفانا كنا الفا وخمسماية