Musnad Ahmad 25623

Translation

✧ O assembly of Muslims, who will excuse me from a man whose harm has reached me concerning my family? By Allah, I know nothing about my family but good. They have mentioned a man about whom I know nothing but good, and he never entered upon my family except with me. Then Sa'd b. Mu'adh al-Ansari stood up and said: 'I will excuse you from him, O Messenger of Allah. If he is from the Aws, we will strike his neck; and if he is from our brothers of the Khazraj, you command us and we will do your command.' She said: Then Sa'd b. 'Ubadah stood up, and he was the chief of the Khazraj. He was a righteous man, but zeal overcame him, and he said to Sa'd b. Mu'adh: 'By the life of Allah, you will not kill him, and you cannot kill him.' Then Usayd b. Hudayr, the cousin of Sa'd b. Mu'adh, stood up and said to Sa'd b. 'Ubadah: 'You lie, by the life of Allah, we will surely kill him. You are a hypocrite, arguing on behalf of the hypocrites.' Then the two tribes, the Aws and the Khazraj, became agitated until they were about to fight, while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was standing on the minbar. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept calming them until they fell silent, and he fell silent. She said: I wept that day, my tears did not stop, and I could not sleep. Then I wept the following night, my tears did not stop, and I could not sleep. My parents thought that weeping would split my liver. She said: While they were sitting with me and I was weeping, a woman from the Ansar asked permission to enter, and I permitted her; she sat weeping with me. While we were thus, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered upon us, greeted, and sat down. She said: He had not sat with me since what was said about me had been said, and a month had passed without any revelation concerning my matter. She said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ recited the tashahhud when he sat, then said: 'To proceed, O Aishah, I have heard such and such about you. If you are innocent, Allah will soon declare your innocence, Mighty and Majestic is He. But if you have committed a sin, ask Allah's forgiveness and repent to Him, for when a servant confesses a sin and then repents, Allah turns to him in forgiveness.' She said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished his speech, my tears stopped until I felt not a drop. I said to my father: 'Answer the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on my behalf regarding what he said.' He said: 'By Allah, I do not know what to say to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' I said to my mother: 'Answer the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on my behalf.' She said: 'By Allah, I do not know what to say to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.' She said: I said, and I was a young girl who did not read much of the Quran: 'By Allah, I know that you have heard this until it settled in your hearts and you believed it. If I say to you that I am innocent, and Allah knows I am innocent, you will not believe me. If I confess to you something, and Allah knows I am innocent, you will believe me. By Allah, I find no example for me and you except as Abu Yusuf said: "So patience is most fitting, and Allah is the one sought for help against what you describe" (Quran 12:18).' She said: Then I turned and lay down on my bed. She said: By Allah, at that time I knew that I was innocent and that Allah would declare my innocence, but by Allah, I did not think that revelation would be sent down concerning my matter that would be recited. My affair was too insignificant in my own eyes for Allah to speak about me in a matter to be recited, but I hoped that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would see a dream in which Allah would declare my innocence. She said: By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not leave his seat, nor did anyone of the household leave, until Allah sent down revelation upon His Prophet. He was seized with the same intensity that used to seize him during revelation, until drops of sweat like pearls fell from him on a cold day, from the weight of the word sent down upon him. She said: When the revelation was lifted from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he was smiling. The first words he spoke were: 'Rejoice, O Aishah, for Allah has declared your innocence.' My mother said to me: 'Get up and go to him.' I said: 'By Allah, I will not get up to him, and I praise none but Allah, Mighty and Majestic is He; He is the one who sent down my innocence.' Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic is He, sent down: "Indeed, those who came with the falsehood are a group among you" (Quran 24:11), ten verses. Allah sent down these verses as my innocence. She said: Abu Bakr, who used to spend on Mistah because of his kinship and poverty, said: 'By Allah, I will never spend anything on him after what he said about Aishah.' Then Allah sent down: "And let not those of virtue among you and wealth swear not to give... Do you not love that Allah should forgive you?" (Quran 24:22). Abu Bakr said: 'By Allah, I do love that Allah should forgive me.' So he resumed the spending on Mistah that he used to give, and said: 'I will never withhold it from him again.' Aishah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had asked Zaynab bt. Jahsh, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, about my matter: 'What do you know, or what have you seen, or what has reached you?' She said: 'O Messenger of Allah, I protect my hearing and my sight. By Allah, I know nothing but good.' Aishah said: She was the one who used to rival me among the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, but Allah protected her through piety. Her sister Hamnah bt. Jahsh began to fight on her behalf, and she was destroyed among those who were destroyed. Ibn Shihab said: This is what has reached us of the affair of these people. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: claws. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: he detained me. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: he set out at night. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: with me. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: we take. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: she departed. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and what is in brackets does not exist in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: he said. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: she said: he said. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: while. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: I do not know, by Allah. Thus in the edition of the Islamic Heritage Association, and in the Mu'assasat al-Risalah edition: the cold (day).

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