When the army had halted at a place on their return...

When the army had halted at a place on their return, she went out to answer nature’s call without informing anyone. When she returned to the camp, she realized that her necklace was missing. She went to that place once again in search of her necklace. She found her necklace but everybody had departed by the time she returned. She lost all hopes and went to sleep after covering herself with a sheet.

Fortunately Safwan was passing by on his camel and he recognized her because he had seen her before the revelation of the verse of veiling. Safwan’s eyesight was so sharp that he recognized her from over the sheet in the dark night. Safwan made her mount his camel and brought her to Medina. Some…