al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 8843
✧ A man's love for some of his women is more than others.
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رَافِعٍ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ ثِقَةٌ مَأْمُونٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
اجْتَمَعْنَ أَزْوَاجُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَرْسَلْنَ فَاطِمَةَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقُلْنَ لَهَا «إِنَّ نِسَاءَكَ وَذَكَرَ كَلِمَةً مَعْنَاهَا يَنْشُدْنَكَ الْعَدْلَ فِي ابْنَةِ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ» قَالَتْ فَدَخَلَتْ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَهُوَ مَعَ عَائِشَةَ فِي مِرْطِهَا فَقَالَتْ لَهُ «إِنَّ نِسَاءَكَ أَرْسَلْنَنِي وَهُنَّ يَنْشُدْنَكَ الْعَدْلَ فِي ابْنَةِ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ» فَقَالَ لَهَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «أَتُحِبِّينَنِي؟» فَقَالَتْ نَعَمْ قَالَ «فَأَحِبِّيهَا» قَالَتْ فَرَجَعْتُ إِلَيْهِنَّ فَأَخْبَرَتْهُنَّ بِمَا قَالَ لَهَا فَقُلْنَ إِنَّكِ لَمْ تَصْنَعِي شَيْئًا فَارْجِعِي إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَتْ وَاللهِ لَا أَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِ فِيهَا أَبَدًا وَكَانَتِ ابْنَةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حَقًّا فَأَرْسَلْنَ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتَ جَحْشٍ قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ «وَهِيَ الَّتِي كَانَتْ تُسَامِينِي مِنْ أَزْوَاجِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ» فَقَالَتْ إِنَّ أَزْوَاجَكَ أَرْسَلْنَنِي وَهُنَّ يَنْشُدْنَكَ الْعَدْلَ فِي ابْنَةِ أَبِي قُحَافَةَ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَتْ عَلَيَّ فَشَتَمَتْنِي فَجَعَلْتُ أَرْقُبُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ وَأَنْظُرُ طَرْفَهُ هَلْ يَأْذَنُ لِي فِي أَنْ أَنْتَصِرَ مِنْهَا قَالَتْ فَشَتَمَتْنِي حَتَّى ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ لَا يَكْرَهُ أَنْ أَنْتَصِرَ مِنْهَا فَاسْتَقْبَلْتُهَا فَلَمْ أَلْبَثْ أَنْ أَفْحَمْتُهَا فَقَالَ لَهَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ «إِنَّهَا ابْنَةُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ» قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ «وَلَمْ أَرَ امْرَأَةً أَكْثَرَ خَيْرًا وَلَا أَكْثَرَ صَدَقَةً وَأَوْصَلَ لِرَحِمٍ وَأَبْذَلَ لِنَفْسِهَا فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ يُتَقَرَّبُ بِهِ إِلَى اللهِ ﷻ مِنْ زَيْنَبَ مَا عَدَا سَوْرَةً مِنْ حِدٍّ كَانَ فِيهَا تُوشِكُ فِيهَا الْفَيْئَةُ» قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ هَذَا خَطَأٌ وَالصَّوَابُ الَّذِي قَبْلَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. Rāfiʿ al-Naysābūrī Thiqah Maʾmūn
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- al-Zuhrī
- ʿUrwah
- ʿĀʾishah
✧ The wives of the Prophet ﷺ gathered and sent Fatimah to the Prophet ﷺ. They said to her: "Your wives" - and he mentioned a word meaning - "ask you for fairness regarding the daughter of Abu Quhafah." She said: She entered upon the Prophet ﷺ while he was with Aishah under her cloak. She said to him: "Your wives have sent me, and they ask you for fairness regarding the daughter of Abu Quhafah." The Prophet ﷺ said to her: "Do you love me?" She said: "Yes." He said: "Then love her." She said: I returned to them and told them what he had said to her. They said: "You have not done anything. Go back to him." She said: "By Allah, I will never go back to him about her again." She was truly the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Then they sent Zaynab bint Jahsh. Aishah said: "She was the one who rivaled me among the wives of the Prophet ﷺ." She said: "Your wives have sent me, and they ask you for fairness regarding the daughter of Abu Quhafah." Then she turned to me and insulted me. I began to watch the Prophet ﷺ and look at his eyes to see if he would allow me to defend myself against her. She said: She insulted me until I thought that he did not dislike me defending myself. So I confronted her, and it was not long before I silenced her. The Prophet ﷺ said to her: "She is the daughter of Abu Bakr." Aishah said: "I have never seen a woman with more good, more charity, more maintaining of kinship ties, and more devoted to exhausting herself in everything by which one draws near to Allah, may He be exalted, than Zaynab, except for a surge of sharpness that was in her, from which she quickly recovered." Abu Abd al-Rahman said: This is an error; the correct version is the one before it.
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