Jabir bin Abdullah relates: We went along with Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be to him) on an expedition towards Najd and Allah’s Messenger found us in a valley abounding in thorny trees. Allah’s Messenger stayed for rest under a tree and he suspended his sword by one of its branches under which he was taking a rest. The persons scattered in the valley and they also began to take a rest under the trees, and Allah’s Messenger said: “A person came to me while I was asleep and took hold of the sword. I woke up and found him standing upon my head and I had hardly become alert that the sword was in his hand. And he said: Who can protect you from me? I said: Allah. He again said: Who can protect you from me? I said: Allah. He put his sword in the sheath (and you can see) this man is sitting here.” Allah’s Messenger did not in any way touch him.
(Sahih Muslim)
The Holy Messenger’s relation with his Creator was so deep and closethat no one can read an account of his sacred life without realising a sense of the Majesty of Allah and of His Infinite Might and Power. Although the Companions used to serve as his sentinels yet when the ayatin Al-Maidah: ‘And Allah will protect thee from all people’ was revealed, he asked all his sentinels to leave him to the protection of Allah, as there is no protecting hand more powerful than the Hand of Allah.