Musnad Ahmad 26697

Translation

✧ Whoever is afflicted by a calamity should say: ‘We belong to God and to Him we return. O God, with You I seek recompense for my calamity, so reward me in it and replace it for me with something better than it.’ When Abū Salamah died, I said it, and every time I reached ‘and replace it for me with something better than it,’ I said to myself: Who is better than Abū Salamah? Then I said it. When her waiting period ended, Abū Bakr sent to her to propose marriage, but she did not marry him. Then the Messenger of God ﷺ sent ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to her to propose on his behalf. She said, “Tell the Messenger of God ﷺ that I am a jealous woman, and I am a woman with children, and none of my guardians is present.” He came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and mentioned that to him. He said, “Return to her and say: As for your saying that you are a jealous woman, I will supplicate God, Mighty and Majestic, and He will remove your jealousy. As for your saying that you are a woman with children, your children will be taken care of. As for your saying that none of your guardians is present, there is none of your guardians, present or absent, who would dislike that.”

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