Malik related to me from AIqama ibn Abi Alqama that his mother
said that she had heard A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, say, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, rose one night and put on his clothes
and then went out. I ordered my slave-girl, Barira, to follow him, and
she followed him until he got to al-Baqi. He stood near it as long as
Allah willed and then he left. Barira arrived back before him and told
me and I did not say anything to him until morning, and then I
mentioned it to him and he explained, 'I was sent out to the people of
al-Baqi to pray for them.' "
Muwatta Malik Book 16, Hadith 58
Yahya related to me from Malik from Said ibn Abi Said al-Maqburi
that Ubayd ibn Jurayj once said to Abdullah ibn Umar, "Abu Abd ar-
Rahman, I have seen you doing four things which I have never seen any
of your companions doing." He said, "What are they, Ibn Jurayj?" and
he replied, "I have seen you touching only the twoYamani corners, I
have seen you wearing hairless sandals, I have seen you using yellow
dye, and, when you were at Makka and everybody had started doing
talbiya after seeing the new moon, I saw that you did not do so until
the eighth of Dhu'l-Hijja."
Abdullah ibn Umar replied, "As
for the corners, I only ever saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, touching the two Yamani corners. As for
the sandals, I saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, wearing hairless sandals and doing wudu in them, and
I like wearing them. As for using yellow dye, I saw the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, using it, and I also
like to use it for dyeing things with. As for doing talbiya, I never
saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
begin doing so until he had set out on the animal he was riding on
(i.e. for Mina and Arafa)."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 32