Himyar

Imran ibn Husayn RA narrated that while he sat in the Masjid, a delegation of Banu Tamim (crude, harsh Bedouins of Najd, from whom much of the Confederate army at the Battle of the Trench had come) arrived announcing their Islam. The Prophet ﷺ told them, "I give you good news, O people of Tamim" (meaning of Jannah), but they misunderstood this as an offer of wealth and asked him for money instead; the Prophet ﷺ, showing his adab, said nothing. The Himyarites of Yemen then arrived and announced their own Islam. The Prophet ﷺ said, "O people of Himyar, accept the good news, since the people of Banu Tamim did not accept it." They replied, "We accept the good news! And we have come all the way from Yemen asking you about the creation: how did Allah create it, and how did it all begin?" The Prophet ﷺ answered, "There was Allah, and there was nothing before Him. And He then created the heavens and the earth while His Throne was on the water." Imran ibn Husayn RA then recounted that, right at that point, someone called out that his camel had fled; he ran after it into the desert and, catching neither the camel nor the rest of the hadith, later wished he had let the camel go so he could have heard the whole thing, and since the Himyar delegates themselves went home without becoming narrators of hadith, this account was never completed for later generations.