Sahih al-Bukhari 5211
To draw lots among the wives for a journey
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ أَيْمَنَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ عَنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ
كَانَ إِذَا خَرَجَ أَقْرَعَ بَيْنَ نِسَائِهِ فَطَارَتِ الْقُرْعَةُ لِعَائِشَةَ وَحَفْصَةَ وَكَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِذَا كَانَ بِاللَّيْلِ سَارَ مَعَ عَائِشَةَ يَتَحَدَّثُ فَقَالَتْ حَفْصَةُ أَلاَ تَرْكَبِينَ اللَّيْلَةَ بَعِيرِي وَأَرْكَبُ بَعِيرَكِ تَنْظُرِينَ وَأَنْظُرُ فَقَالَتْ بَلَى فَرَكِبَتْ فَجَاءَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِلَى جَمَلِ عَائِشَةَ وَعَلَيْهِ حَفْصَةُ فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْهَا ثُمَّ سَارَ حَتَّى نَزَلُوا وَافْتَقَدَتْهُ عَائِشَةُ فَلَمَّا نَزَلُوا جَعَلَتْ رِجْلَيْهَا بَيْنَ الإِذْخِرِ وَتَقُولُ يَا رَبِّ سَلِّطْ عَلَىَّ عَقْرَبًا أَوْ حَيَّةً تَلْدَغُنِي وَلاَ أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَقُولَ لَهُ شَيْئًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Nuʿaym
- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ayman
- Ibn Abū Mulaykah
- al-Qāsim
- ʿĀʾishah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
Aisha said that whenever the Prophet ﷺ intended to go on a journey, he drew lots among his wives (so as to take one of them along with him). During one of his journeys the lot fell on ʿAisha and Hafsa. When night fell the Prophet ﷺ would ride beside ʿAisha and talk with her. One night Hafsa said to ʿAisha, "Won't you ride my camel tonight and I ride yours, so that you may see (me) and I see (you) (in new situation)?" ʿAisha said, "Yes, (I agree.)" So ʿAisha rode, and then the Prophet ﷺ came towards ʿAisha's camel on which Hafsa was riding. He greeted Hafsa and then proceeded (beside her) till they dismounted (on the way). ʿAisha missed him, and so, when they dismounted, she put her legs in the Idhkhir and said, "O Lord (Allah)! Send a scorpion or a snake to bite me for I am not to blame him (the Prophet ﷺ ).
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2445Sunan ad-Darimi 2467al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14887al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8903
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AH, or 108 AH, or 109 AH, 112 AH, or 117 AHالْقَاسِمِثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 117 AH, also said: 118 AH, and al-Dhahabī stated it definitivelyابْنُ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَثقة فقيهحدثني
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. between 141 AH and 150 AHعَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ أَيْمَنَلا بأس بهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AHأَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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