Sirat Ibn Hisham 1256
The revelation of the Qurʾān declaring ʿĀʾishah's innocence
[ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ وَذِكْرُهُ طُهْرَ عَائِشَةَ لِزَوْجِهِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي أَبِي إسْحَاقُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ رِجَالِ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ: أَنَّ أَبَا أَيُّوبٍ خَالِدَ بْنَ زَيْدٍ، قَالَتْ لَهُ امْرَأَتُهُ أُمُّ أَيُّوبَ: يَا أَبَا أَيُّوبَ، أَلَا تَسْمَعُ مَا يَقُولُ النَّاسُ فِي عَائِشَةَ ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى، وَذَلِكَ الْكَذِبُ، أَكُنْتُ يَا أُمَّ أَيُّوبَ فَاعِلَةٌ ؟ قَالَتْ: لَا وَاَللَّهِ مَا كُنْتُ لِأَفْعَلَهُ؛ قَالَ: فَعَائِشَةُ وَاَللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْكَ. [ مَا نَزَلَ مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ فِي ذَلِكَ ] قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ الْقُرْآنُ بِذِكْرِ مَنْ قَالَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْفَاحِشَةِ مَا قَالَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْإِفْكِ فَقَالَ تَعَالَى: إِنَّ الَّذِينَ جَاءُوا بِالْإِفْكِ عُصْبَةٌ مِنْكُمْ لَا تَحْسَبُوهُ شَرًّا لَكُمْ بَلْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ مَا اكْتَسَبَ مِنَ الْإِثْمِ وَالَّذِي تَوَلَّى كِبْرَهُ مِنْهُمْ لَهُ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ وَذَلِكَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ وَأَصْحَابُهُ الَّذِينَ قَالُوا مَا قَالُوا. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: وَذَلِكَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ وَأَصْحَابُهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَاَلَّذِي تَوَلَّى كِبْرَهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أُبَيٍّ، وَقَدْ ذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ فِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ قَبْلَ هَذَا. ثُمَّ قَالَ تَعَالَى: لَوْلَا إِذْ سَمِعْتُمُوهُ ظَنَّ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتُ بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ خَيْرًا أَيْ فَقَالُوا كَمَا قَالَ أَبُو أَيُّوبَ وَصَاحِبَتُهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: إِذْ تَلَقَّوْنَهُ بِأَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَتَقُولُونَ بِأَفْوَاهِكُمْ مَا لَيْسَ لَكُمْ بِهِ عِلْمٌ وَتَحْسَبُونَهُ هَيِّنًا وَهُوَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَظِيمٌ
Translation
✧ [Abū Ayyūb and his mention of ʿĀʾishah's purity to his wife] Ibn Isḥāq said: My father Isḥāq b. Yasār narrated to me, from one of the men of Banū al-Najjār: that Abū Ayyūb Khālid b. Zayd, his wife Umm Ayyūb said to him: "O Abū Ayyūb, do you not hear what the people are saying about ʿĀʾishah?" He said: "Yes, and that is a lie. Would you, O Umm Ayyūb, have done it?" She said: "No, by God, I would never do it." He said: "Then ʿĀʾishah, by God, is better than you." [What was revealed of the Qurʾān concerning that] She said: When the Qurʾān came down mentioning those of the people of indecency who said what they said from the people of the slander, He, Exalted is He, said: "Indeed, those who came with the slander are a group among you. Do not consider it an evil for you; rather, it is good for you. For every one of them is what he earned of sin, and he who took upon himself the greater part of it among them—for him is a great punishment" (Q 24:11). That is Ḥassān b. Thābit and his companions who said what they said. Ibn Hishām said: It is also said: That is ʿAbd Allāh b. Ubayy and his companions. Ibn Hishām said: The one who took upon himself the greater part of it is ʿAbd Allāh b. Ubayy, and Ibn Isḥāq has mentioned that in this tradition before this. Then He, Exalted is He, said: "Why, when you heard it, did the believing men and believing women not think good of themselves and say, 'This is obvious slander'?" (Q 24:12)—that is, and so they said as Abū Ayyūb and his wife said. Then He said: "When you received it with your tongues and said with your mouths that of which you had no knowledge and thought it was insignificant while it was, in the sight of God, tremendous" (Q 24:15).
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