Narrated Aisha:(The wife of the Prophet) Whenever Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) intended to go on a journey, he used to draw lots among his wives and would take with him the one on whom the lot had fallen. Once he drew lots when he wanted to carry out a Ghazwa, and the lot came upon me. So I proceeded with Allah's Apostle after Allah's order of veiling (the women) had been revealed and thus I was carried in my howdah (on a camel) and dismounted while still in it. We carried on our journey, and when Allah's Apostle had finished his Ghazwa and returned and we approached Medina, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ordered to proceed at night. When the army was ordered to resume the homeward journey, I got up and…
Translation note
"The verse of al-Ḥijāb" (āyat al-ḥijāb, literally "the verse of the screen") is not the name of a surah. It refers to 33:53, revealed at the wedding of Zaynab bint Jahsh: "when you ask [the Prophet's wives] for something, ask them from behind a screen." Words in brackets in this translation are the translator's explanation, not part of the Arabic of the hadith.