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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1936

✧ The Scarcity of Righteous Women

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قَالَ عَبْدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْأَشْعَثِ، بَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ عِيَاضٍ، ثَنَا بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، حَدَّثَنِي بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ:

إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا مَعَ أَبِي بَكْرٍ ؓ، فَقَالَ لَهَا: « يَا عَائِشَةُ، أَطْعِمِينَا »، قَالَتْ: وَاللهِ مَا عِنْدَنَا طَعَامٌ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: « أَطْعِمِينَا » فَقَالَتْ: وَاللهِ مَا عِنْدَنَا طَعَامٌ. فَقَالَ: « أَطْعِمِينَا » فَقَالَتْ: وَاللهِ مَا عِنْدَنَا طَعَامٌ. فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ ؓ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، إِنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ الْمُؤْمِنَةَ لَا تَحْلِفُ عَلَى الشَّيْءِ إِنَّهُ مَا هُوَ عِنْدَهَا وَهُوَ عِنْدَهَا، فَقَالَ ﷺ: « وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ أَمُؤْمِنَةٌ هِيَ أَمْ لَا ؟ إِنَّ مَثَلَ الْمَرْأَةِ الْمُؤْمِنَةِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ كَمَثَلِ الْغُرَابِ الْأَعْصَمِ فِي الْغِرْبَانِ، وَإِنَّ النَّارَ خُلِقَتْ لِلسُّفَهَاءِ، وَإِنَّ النِّسَاءَ مِنَ السُّفَهَاءِ، إِلَّا صَاحِبَةَ الْمُشْطِ وَالْمِصْبَاحِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAbd
  2. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ashʿath Banā Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ
  3. Baqiyyah b. al-Walīd
  4. Baḥīr b. Saʿd
  5. Khālid b. Maʿdān
  6. Kathīr b. Murrah al-Ḥaḍramī
  7. ʿĀʾishah

✧ The Prophet ﷺ entered upon her with Abu Bakr ؓ and said to her: 'O Aishah, feed us.' She said: 'By Allah, we have no food.' He ﷺ said: 'Feed us.' She said: 'By Allah, we have no food.' He said: 'Feed us.' She said: 'By Allah, we have no food.' Abu Bakr ؓ said: 'O Messenger of Allah, a believing woman does not swear about something that it is not with her when it is with her.' He ﷺ said: 'And what makes you know whether she is a believer or not? The example of a believing woman among women is like a white-legged crow among crows. The Fire was created for the foolish, and women are among the foolish, except the woman who has the comb and the lamp.'

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  • Abū Ḥatim al-Rāzī

    ليس هذا بشيء إنما يروى عن خالد بن معدان عن كثير بن مرة أن عائشة سألت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فذكر الحديث

    in المطالب العالية, p. 1936

Narrators

  1. ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq
    Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
    عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
    عن
  2. Kathīr b. Murrah al-Ruhāwī
    Trustworthy (thiqah); whoever counted him among the Companions was mistaken (wahima)d. between 71 and 80 AH
    كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ الْحَضْرَمِيِّثقة ، ووهم من عده في الصحابة
    عن
  3. Khālid b. Maʿdān
    trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), who often narrated with omission of the Companion or intermediary (yursilu kathīran).d. 103 AH, or: 104 AH, or: 105 AH, also said: 106 AH, or: 108 AH
    خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَثقة عابد ، يرسل كثيرا.
    عن
  4. Baḥīr b. Saʿd
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. between 141 and 150 AH
    بَحِيرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  5. Baqiyyah
    truthful (ṣadūq), frequently practises concealment (tadlīs) from weak narratorsd. Ibn Saʿd said, and more than one: died (197) AH, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ said: 198 AH; Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 199 AH; Ibn Ḥibbān said: 190 AH
    بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِصدوق ، كثير التدليس عن الضعفاء
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلِ بْنِ عِيَاضٍ
    بنا
  7. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ashʿath companion of al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ
    d. between 221 AH and 230 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْأَشْعَثِ
    حدثنا
  8. ʿAbd b. Ḥumayd
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AH
    عَبْدٌثقة حافظ

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