Sahih Muslim 3696

machine translationAnd Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥanẓalī and Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmar narrated to us – and their wording of the hadith was close – Ibn Abī ʿUmar said: he narrated to us, and Isḥāq said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Thawr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: I had always been eager to ask ʿUmar about the two women among the wives of the Prophet ﷺ about whom Allah the Exalted said: {إِنْ تَتُوبَا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَقَدْ صَغَتْ قُلُوبُكُمَا} until ʿUmar performed the pilgrimage and I performed it with him. When we were on some part of the road, ʿUmar turned aside and I turned aside with him with the water-skin. He relieved himself, then came to me, and I poured water over his hands and he performed ablution. I said: O Commander of the Believers, who are the two women among the wives of the Prophet ﷺ to whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, said: {إِنْ تَتُوبَا إِلَى اللَّهِ فَقَدْ صَغَتْ قُلُوبُكُمَا}? ʿUmar said: How astonishing of you, O Ibn ʿAbbās! – al-Zuhrī said: By Allah, he disliked what he was asked about, but he did not conceal it – He said: They are Ḥafṣah and ʿĀʾishah. Then he began to relate the account. He said: We, the people of Quraysh, were a people who dominated women. When we came to Madīnah, we found a people whose women dominated them, and our women began to learn from their women. He said: My house was among the Banū Umayyah b. Zayd in al-ʿAwālī. One day I became angry with my wife, and she began to answer me back, and I disliked that she answered me back. She said: Why do you dislike that I answer you back? By Allah, the wives of the Prophet ﷺ answer him back, and one of them forsakes him from the day until the night. So I went off and entered upon Ḥafṣah and said: Do you answer back the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? She said: Yes. I said: Does one of you forsake him from the day until the night? She said: Yes. I said: Whoever among you does that has failed and lost. Does one of you feel safe that Allah will be angry with her because of the anger of His Messenger ﷺ, and so she is destroyed? Do not answer back the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and do not ask him for anything, and ask me whatever you need. And do not be deceived if your neighbour is more beautiful and more beloved to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than you – meaning ʿĀʾishah. He said: I had a neighbour from the Anṣār, and we used to take turns going down to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; he would go down one day and I would go down one day. He would bring me news of the revelation and other things, and I would bring him the like. We used to say that Ghassān were shoeing horses to attack us. My companion went down, then came to me in the evening, knocked on my door, and called me. I came out to him and he said: A great event has happened. I said: What is it? Have Ghassān come? He said: No, rather it is greater and longer than that: the Prophet ﷺ has divorced his wives. I said: Ḥafṣah has failed and lost. I had thought this would happen. When I had prayed the morning prayer, I tightened my garments about me, then went down and entered upon Ḥafṣah while she was weeping. I said: Has the Messenger of Allah ﷺ divorced you? She said: I do not know; there he is, withdrawn in this upper room. So I went to a black servant boy of his and said: Ask permission for ʿUmar. He entered, then came out to me and said: I mentioned you to him and he was silent. So I went off until I reached the minbar and sat down. There was a group sitting near it, some of them weeping. I sat a little, then what I felt overcame me. Then I came to the boy and said: Ask permission for ʿUmar. He entered, then came out to me and said: I mentioned you to him and he was silent. So I turned and left, but the boy called me and said: Enter, he has permitted you. I entered and greeted the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He was reclining on a mat of woven palm leaves which had left marks on his side. I said: O Messenger of Allah, have you divorced your wives? He raised his head to me and said: Report a problem