Are you leaving me amidst women and children...

Are you leaving me amidst women and children, and depriving me of keeping your company in this war?' I heard the Prophet say to him: 'Are you not glad that your relation to me is like the relation of Aaron to Moses, except that there will come no Prophet after me?' Another time I heard the Prophet say on the day of the battle of Khaybar: 'I will entrust this banner to a man who loves God and His Prophet, and is loved by God and his Prophet.' We all stretched our necks and looked eagerly at the Prophet to see who is meant.