al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 20599
✧ Zainab bt. Jahsh bin Rabab al-Asadiyyah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ and ᴿᴬ .
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حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ الْأَسْفَاطِيُّ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي وَيْسٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ عَمْرَةَ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِأَزْوَاجِهِ «أَوَّلُكُنَّ تَتْبَعُنِي أَطْوَلُكُنَّ يَدًا» قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ فَكُنَّا إِذَا اجْتَمَعْنَا بَعْدَ وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ نَمُدُّ أَيْدِينَا فِي الْحَائِطِ نَتَطَاوَلُ فَلَمْ نَزَلْ نَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى تُوُفِّيَتْ زَيْنَبُ بِنْتُ جَحْشِ بْنِ رِئَابٍ وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَةً قَصِيرَةً وَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَطْوَلَنَا فَعَرَفْنَا أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَرَادَ بِطُولِ الْيَدِ الصَّدَقَةَ وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَةً صَنَاعًا كَانَتْ تَعْمَلُ بِيَدَيْهَا وَتَتَصَدَّقُ بِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ
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Chain of narrators
- al-ʿAbbās b. al-Faḍl al-Asfāṭī
- Ismāʿīl b. Abū and Ys from my father
- Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī
- ʿAmrah
- ʿĀʾishah
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to his wives: "The first of you to follow me will be the one with the longest hand among you." Aishah said: "After the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, whenever we gathered, we would stretch our hands against the wall to see who was the longest. We continued doing that until Zaynab bint Jahsh b. Ri'ab died. She was a short woman, and she was not the tallest of us. Then we realized that by 'length of hand' the Prophet ﷺ meant charity. She was a skilled woman who worked with her hands and gave charity from it in the way of Allah."
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