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Narrated Laqit Ibn Sabirah: I was the leader of the delegation of Banu AlMuntafiq or the narrator doubted I was among the delegation of Banu AlMuntafiq that came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When we reached the Prophet; we did not find him in his house. We found there Aisha; the Mother of the Believers. She ordered that a dish called Khazirah should be prepared for us. It was then prepared. A tray containing dates was then presented to us. The narrator Qutaybah did not mention the word qina; tray. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came. He asked: Has anything been served to you or ordered for you? We replied: Yes; Messenger of Allah. While we were sitting in the company of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ we suddenly saw that a shepherd was driving a herd of sheep to their fold. He had with him a newly-born lamb that was crying. He the Prophet asked him: What did it bear; O so and so? He replied: A ewe. He then said: Slaughter for us in its place a sheep. Do not think that we are slaughtering it for you. We have one hundred sheep and we do not want their number to increase. Whenever a ewe is born; we slaughter a sheep in its place. The narrator says that the Prophet ﷺ used the word la tahsabanna; do not think. I the narrator Laqit then said: Messenger of Allah; I have a wife who has something wrong in her tongue; i.e. she is insolent. He said: Then divorce her. I said: Messenger of Allah; she had company with me and I have children from her. He said: Then ask her to obey you. If there is something good in her; she will do so obey ; and do not beat your wife as you beat your slave-girl. I said: Messenger of Allah; tell me about ablution. He said: Perform ablution in full and make the fingers go through the beard and snuff with water well except when you are fasting.