Hazrat Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that when the Muhajirun migrated from Makkah to Madinah, they had no belongings with them. The Ansar were people of land and property. The Ansar made an arrangement with the Muhajirun that they would give them fruit from their gardens every year, and in return, the Muhajirun would work in their gardens. The mother of Hazrat Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), Umm Sulaym, who was also the mother of Abdullah bin Abi Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him), gifted a date garden to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), but he granted that garden to his slave woman Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her), who was the mother of Usamah bin Zaid (may Allah be pleased with him). Ibn Shihab narrated that Hazrat Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) informed me that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) returned to Madinah after finishing the battle with the Jews of Khaybar, the Muhajirun returned to the Ansar the gifts they had received from them in the form of fruits. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) also returned the garden of Hazrat Anas’s mother and, instead, granted Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her) some trees from his own garden.

Hazrat Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that as a gift, the companions (may Allah be pleased with them) used to allocate some date-palm trees from their gardens for the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), until the tribes of Banu Qurayza and Banu Nadir were conquered (then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, returned those gifts). My family also sent me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to take those dates, either all of them or a part of them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had given those dates to Umm Ayman (may Allah be pleased with her). Meanwhile, she also arrived and put a cloth around my neck and said, "Absolutely not. By the One besides whom there is no deity, you will not get this fruit. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) has already granted it to me," or she said words to that effect. Upon this, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her, "You may take such and such in exchange from me (and return their property to them)," but she kept insisting, "Absolutely not, by Allah!" until the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) promised her ten times as much, as narrated by Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), or he said words to that effect, then she let me go.