Muhammad’s Gay Companions
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The narrations cited here are taken from the following YT video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psr1AR0KvO4). All emphasis will be mine.
Tafsir Quran, Surah Ad-Duhaa (93), verse 6 by Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
When the Prophet’s father, Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib, passed away, the Prophet’s mother, Aminah, was still pregnant with him. After the Prophet was born, he lived with his grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, and his mother, Aminah. Aminah passed away when he was 2 years old, and his grandfather also passed away when he was 8 years old. Before his death, Abdul Muttalib asked his son, Abu Talib, to care for the Prophet because Abu Talib was Abdullah’s full brother from the same mother. Thus, Abu Talib raised the Prophet of Allah after his grandfather’s death until he was sent as a prophet…
It is said that one day Abu Talib said to his brother, Al-Abbas: “Shall I tell you about Muhammad based on what I have observed in him?” He replied: “Yes.” Then he said: “I love him so much that I never part from him for even a moment, neither at night nor during the day, and I do not entrust him to anyone; in fact, I often have him sleep in my bed.
“One night I ordered him to take off his clothing and sleep with me, so I saw resentment on his face and but hate to show disobedience and he replied back, ‘Oh uncle put your face away until I take off my clothing as no one should see my naked body’, so I was puzzled from his response and I did put my face away until he come into bed, and when he did there was a dress between both of us that I did not put. And then I found that he is so soft and smells so good as if he is soaked in musk, so I kept trying hard to stare at his body, and a lot of times {during our sleep at this night} I found him not in bed and I kept calling on him so he said ‘uncle here I am’ and then he returned.”
https://sunnah.com/abudawud:5224
Narrated Usayd ibn Hudayr: AbdurRahman ibn AbuLayla, quoting Usayd ibn Hudayr, a man of the Ansar, said that while he was given to jesting and was talking to the people and making them laugh, the Prophet poked him under the ribs with a stick. He said: Let me take retaliation. He said: Take retaliation. He said: You are wearing a shirt but I am not. The Prophet then raised his shirt and the man embraced him and began to kiss his side. Then he said: This is what I wanted, Messenger of Allah!
Al-Mu'jam Al-Kabir, Al-Tabarani
Sayyar ibn Mandhur related from his father, who related from a woman among them called Buhaisah, who said: My father asked permission of the Prophet to get between Him and his shirt. He gave him permission, and the man got between Him and his shirt from behind him, and began to embrace Him and rub his chest on the Prophet's back. And he said: Oh Messenger of Allah, what is that which is unlawful to withhold? He said: The fluid. He said: Oh Messenger of Allah, what is that which is unlawful to withhold? He said: The salt. He said: Oh Messenger of Allah, what is that which is unlawful to withhold? He said: That you do good; this is best for you. And everything he said was just getting at the fluid and the salt. She [Buhaisa] said: And the man did not withhold any of the fluid, even if it wasn't much.
Al-Tabarani, Al-mu’jam Al-kabir, Section "B" in narrations from women
https://sunnah.com/abudawud:3476
Hadith Sunan Abi Dawud 3476
Narrated Buhaisah: On the authority of her father: My father asked the Prophet for permission (to kiss his body). (When he was given permission), lifting his shirt he approached his body, and began to kiss and stick to him. He then asked: Prophet of Allah, what is the thing withholding of which is not lawful? He replied: Water. He asked: Prophet of Allah, what is the thing withholding of which is not lawful? He replied: Salt. He again asked: Prophet of Allah, what is the thing withholding of which is not lawful? He said: That you do a good work is better for you.
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