Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat #03 Aishah bint Abi Bakr RA P2
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the best
of Allah's creation.
And upon his family, his companions, and those
who are guided by his guidance.
We await his Sunnah until the Day of
Judgment.
O Allah, teach us what will benefit us,
and benefit us with what You have taught
us, and increase us in knowledge.
And show us the truth as the truth,
and grant us to follow it.
And show us falsehood as falsehood, and grant
us to avoid it.
And make us of those who listen to
the word, and follow the best of it.
And admit us with Your mercy among Your
righteous servants.
And after that, peace and blessings be upon
you.
Last week we spoke about our mother, the
mother of the believers, Aisha.
And we started by talking about who she
is, her name, her lineage, her birth in
Mecca, her upbringing.
And her marriage at a young age to
the Prophet ﷺ, how she got married to
him.
Also talking about her marriage, refuting those who
attack this marriage and criticize it.
And we also looked at why this marriage
was actually important for the Ummah at large.
And we're going to be talking more about
that, looking more into that today insha'Allah
ta'ala.
And then we spoke about one of the
greatest trials, in fact the greatest trial, that
Aisha radiallahu anha went through in her life.
And that was what is known as the
story of the ifq, or the outrageous slander
that she herself narrated.
We went through that story.
And the reason why we went through that
story last week is because it was a
longer story.
And there are a lot of lessons from
it.
And so today we want to go through
other glimpses and incidents in the life of
Aisha radiallahu anha.
So what we're going to do today insha
'Allah ta'ala, we're going to go through
other glimpses from the life of Aisha radiallahu
anha.
Aisha radiallahu anha, basically showing us what kind
of life she lived with the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam.
And her personal life with the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam teaches us a lot about the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
It's not just lessons for sisters to learn
from her behavior, but also for men to
learn how the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam treated
his wives.
And so we start when Aisha radiallahu anha
was young.
When she was young, her favorite pastime was
playing with dolls.
And so once the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
saw her playing with a winged horse.
So he asked her, what is this?
She said, it was a horse with wings.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, do horses
have wings?
So she said that, Sulaiman alayhi wasalam, did
he not have horses that had wings?
And so this incident, it reveals and shows
us how intelligent and brilliant Aisha radiallahu anha
was from a young age.
She must have heard something from the story
of Sulaiman alayhi wasalam, and right away she
brought that up.
Now, on another occasion, it was the day
of Eid, and Aisha radiallahu anha had two
young girls who were with her singing some
poetry that the Ansar, the people of Medina
used to sing prior to Islam.
And they were using the daf, which is
like a drum, but this is the only
instrument that is permissible in Islam.
So when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came
in and they saw him, they were kind
of shy of him.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam turned away
from them, and then he went to another
side of the house, and he laid down
with his back to them, and he covered
himself with a blanket.
So then Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu came to
meet his daughter and the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam on the day of Eid.
So when he came in and he saw
the two girls with the daf in their
hands, he got angry.
And he said, you know, an instrument of
shaytan in the house of Rasulallah salallahu alayhi
wasalam?
So then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam heard
him and he turned to him and he
said, Leave them.
Today is the day of Eid.
Let us enjoy so that the Jews know
that there is fun in our religion.
Here the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was teaching
the ummah an important lesson, and that is
that our deen is not just about ibadah
and worshipping and learning and serious stuff, which
is good, but there's also times we can
enjoy ourselves.
And so this was the day of Eid,
and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was saying,
Let us enjoy this day.
On another day of Eid, the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam was at home, and he heard
some voices in the masjid.
And the homes of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam, they were basically, you know, small rooms
that were attached to the masjid.
So there's just a wall between his homes,
in which his wives used to live in,
and the masjid.
So he heard some voices in the masjid,
so he looked over the wall, and there
were some men, Abyssinian men, from Habesha, who
were playing with their spears.
There was a particular game that these people
used to play, so they were playing with
their spears, and the people had gathered around
to watch them.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam turned to
Aisha radiallahu anha, and he asked her, Do
you want to watch?
She said yes.
So the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam picked her
up, and put her on his back, and
she was watching.
After some time he asked her, Is that
enough?
Have you had enough?
So she says no.
So after some time again, the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam asks, Are you satisfied?
Do you want to come down?
She said no.
So he kept on asking until finally she
said yes.
She says, He kept on asking until I
finally said yes, while I had already had
enough from some time ago.
But I wanted to know my status with
him.
I wanted to know how special I was
to him.
And for my co-wives to hear about
that, so that they know how special I
am to him.
So that they know how special I am
to him salallahu alayhi wasalam.
And we spoke about how beloved Aisha radiallahu
anha was to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
And we're going to talk more about that
today.
He had a love for her that he
didn't have for anyone else.
And here she wanted to boast about that.
So that's why she did this.
In another incident, and this is in Bukhari
and Muslim, Aisha radiallahu anha narrates, She says,
We set out with the Messenger of Allah
salallahu alayhi wasalam on one of his journeys.
Until we reached a place called Al-Bayda.
And I had a necklace that was broken.
And I lost it.
This necklace actually belonged to her sister Asmaa
radiallahu anha.
Asmaa was older than her.
So anyways, she says, As a result the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam decided to stay there
to search for this necklace.
And everyone had to stay back now.
But there was no water in this place.
So the people went to Abu Bakr radiallahu
anha and said, Don't you see what Aisha
has done?
She made the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and
the people to stay here where there's no
water.
And we have no water with us.
We've ran out of water.
So Abu Bakr went to see the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wasalam.
When he arrived, he found the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam asleep with his head on the
thigh of Aisha radiallahu anha.
So he saw me.
She says, Aisha says, He saw me and
he said, This is the father of Aisha,
Abu Bakr radiallahu anha.
He said to me, he was angry.
He said, You have held back the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wasalam and the people in a
place where there's no water and we have
no water with us.
And he kept on admonishing me.
He said whatever Allah willed for him to
say.
And he started poking me on my side.
She says, I didn't move only because the
Prophet's head was in my lap.
She says, and then the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam got up and now it was Fajr.
So what are they going to do now?
They have no water.
How are they going to make wudu?
How are they going to pray?
She says, there was no water and it
was Fajr time.
So Allah revealed the ayat of tayammum.
Allah revealed those ayat in the Qur'an
that tell us that when there is no
water, we should do tayammum.
And so everyone ended up doing tayammum.
One of the companions, Usaid ibn Hudair, he
says, He said to them, O family of
Abu Bakr, this is not the first blessing
of yours.
Meaning that as a result of Aisha radiallahu
anha, as a result of this incident, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, he gave us a
concession.
He revealed a new ruling that is going
to stay in our deen until the day
of judgment.
That when you don't have water, you do
tayammum.
This was as a result of the blessing
of Aisha radiallahu anha.
So anyways, what ended up happening is they
went to the camel.
They're getting ready to leave.
They couldn't find the necklace.
The camel gets up and the necklace was
right under the camel.
On another occasion, this was towards the end
of the life of the Prophet ﷺ, when
he went for the farewell hajj.
The farewell hajj.
And Aisha radiallahu anha, she went with them.
On the way, now everyone was going to
do an umrah along with a hajj.
Everyone was going to do umrah and hajj.
So first they get to Mecca, they do
their umrah, and then they come out of
their ihram, and then they wait until the
days of hajj, and then they perform hajj
with a new ihram.
So Aisha radiallahu anha, what ended up happening
is that on the way, her period came.
So now she could no longer do umrah
because she can't make tawaf around the Ka
'bah.
So while you're in that state, you cannot
make tawaf.
You could do everything else from the rituals
of hajj, but not tawaf.
So now she couldn't do the umrah.
So after hajj, it's now time to leave
back to Medina, and the Prophet radiallahu anha
came to her and he found her crying.
He asked her, what's wrong?
She said, all of my friends are going
back having done hajj and umrah, while I
am going back only having done hajj.
So the Prophet radiallahu anha asked her, do
you want to perform umrah?
She said yes.
By now, obviously, she's out of her period.
So the Prophet radiallahu anha ordered her brother
Abdurrahman to go with her to Tanaim.
Tanaim is basically the boundary of the haram.
And that is where you go, you have
to leave the haram boundary to get back
into the state of ihram.
So she went there, she went into the
state of ihram, and then she went with
her brother to make umrah, and then after
that she came back and they all left
back to Medina.
Today, there is a masjid at that same
location.
And it is called Masjid Aisha.
It is called Masjid Aisha, and whoever wants
to perform umrah, that's where they go.
Like if you're already in Mecca, and you
want to perform umrah, and you're not in
the state of ihram, everyone basically goes there,
and they put on their ihram from there,
and then they go and make their umrah.
And then we have the relationship between Aisha
and the Prophet ﷺ in terms of how
close they were.
The Prophet ﷺ once said to Aisha, I
know when you are happy with me and
when you are upset with me.
I know when you are happy with me
and when you are upset with me.
So she asked, you know, how?
He said to her, when you are happy
with me, you say, By the Lord of
Muhammad.
You know, if you were to swear by
Allah, you would say, By the Lord of
Muhammad.
And when you are upset with me, you
say, By the Lord of Ibrahim.
By the Lord of Ibrahim.
Obviously, Allah is one.
The Lord of Ibrahim or Muhammad ﷺ or
anyone.
It's the same thing.
So she said yes.
She said that's true.
She said, by Allah, it is only my
tongue that boycotts you.
I would never do anything beyond that.
If I'm angry with you, I won't stay
away from you.
I won't, you know, do anything else.
That's the furthest I would go.
And this shows us, you know, this shows
us how she would be very careful about
how she would deal with her emotions in
front of the Prophet ﷺ.
And then we have examples from the, what
is known as the ghayrah.
The ghayrah of Aisha ﷺ.
This natural feeling in women to be jealous.
To be jealous over their husbands.
And obviously, she was one of his many
wives.
Even though she was the most special, the
most beloved to him, still, she would have
that feeling, which is a natural feeling.
And we mentioned previously when we spoke about
the story of Khadija ﷺ, how Aisha ﷺ
says that there was no wife of the
Prophet ﷺ that she was more jealous over
than Khadija, even though she never saw her.
Khadija ﷺ passed away long before Aisha ﷺ
came on the scene.
But because the Prophet ﷺ always used to
mention Khadija ﷺ, and without a doubt, she
was the most beloved of his wives to
him, and then second comes Aisha ﷺ.
So, one day, the Prophet ﷺ came home
at night, and he went to sleep.
When it was late into the night, Aisha
ﷺ got up, and it was dark.
Obviously, there were no lights, it was dark,
and she got up, and she couldn't find
the Prophet ﷺ next to her.
She went to sleep, he was next to
her, and now she's looking for him, and
he's not there.
So, she's looking around with her hands, and
her hand ends up touching his hair.
So, the Prophet ﷺ just happened to turn
over while he was sleeping.
That's all that happened.
He was there, but he wasn't right next
to her.
So, she touched his head, and he ends
up waking up.
He feels her hand on his head, and
he says to her, your Shaytan has come
to you.
Your Shaytan has come to you.
So, Aisha says, I asked, don't you have
a Shaytan?
So, the Prophet ﷺ said, yes, but Allah
helped me with him.
Allah made me overcome him, so my Shaytan
has submitted to me.
Not the opposite where, you know, Shaytan has
overpowered me.
No, I have overpowered my own Shaytan.
So, basically, here Aisha ﷺ, what was the
Prophet ﷺ saying, that your Shaytan has come
to you?
Basically, she was thinking that the Prophet ﷺ
left to go and be with another wife.
Right, so that's what she was worried about.
And we're going to see this again.
We're going to see it again.
So, the same thing happened on another night.
She looked around for him, but she couldn't
find him.
She says, then I noticed that the Prophet
ﷺ was not there.
And I thought that he had gone to
one of his other wives.
So, I looked around for him.
I reached out with my hands.
And my hand touched his feet.
And he was either in the state of
sujood or ruku' And he was saying, subhanaka
wa bihamdik la ilaha illa ant.
So, the Prophet ﷺ was praying Qiyamul Layl.
So, Aisha ﷺ says, I said, may my
father and mother be sacrificed for you.
You were doing one thing, and I was
thinking something else.
You were doing one thing, while I was
thinking something else.
Meaning, that here the Prophet ﷺ is busy
in salah, doing something good, while Aisha ﷺ
she was thinking that he was cheating her,
and he left to go be with another
wife.
Again, the same thing happens on a third
night.
The Prophet ﷺ came at night and went
to sleep.
Aisha ﷺ says, she narrates this incident, she
says, when it was my night, when he
was with me, he came back from Aisha
ﷺ, he put his sandals by his feet,
and he spread the edge of his izar,
which is the lower garment, on his bed.
She says, he stayed until he thought that
I had gone to sleep.
Then he put on his sandals slowly, he
picked up his cloak slowly, then he opened
the door slowly, and went out slowly.
So she says, as soon as he left,
I covered my head, I put on my
clothes, I put on my jilbab, then I
followed him.
Until he arrived at Al-Baqi'ah.
Al-Baqi'ah is the graveyard, and you
know, in those days, it was considered on
the outskirts of Medina.
Today, it's, because of the expansion of the
masjid, it's right outside the masjid.
The graveyard, where all the companions are buried,
and it's known as Al-Baqi'ah.
She says, he raised his hands three times,
and stood there for a long time, making
dua'.
Then, then he started making his way back.
She says, I started moving quickly, and he
also started moving quickly.
And then, he ran, and I also ran.
She says, I came into the house, I
put myself back in bed, and he comes
in, and he sees my heart basically beating
very fast, and he says, O Aisha, tell
me, otherwise Al-'Aleem Al-Khabeer will tell me.
Either you tell me, or Allah will tell
me.
So Aisha, she says, Ya Rasool Allah, I'm
sleeping.
So the Prophet ﷺ says, either you tell
me, or Allah will tell me.
So then, Aisha, she told him the whole
story.
She said, I saw you leaving slowly, and
I was awake, and I followed you.
So the Prophet ﷺ asked her, so you
were that black shape that I saw in
front of me?
I said, yes.
Then he gave me a nudge on my
chest, and he said, did you think that
Allah and His Messenger would deal unjustly with
you?
Meaning, did you think that I would deal
with you unjustly and go to someone else
on your night?
So then Aisha says, I said, whatever the
people conceal, Allah knows it.
So then, after that, the Prophet ﷺ said,
Jibreel came to me, so he was telling
her what actually happened, why he left.
He said, Jibreel came to me when I
saw you.
But he did not enter because you were
not fully dressed.
So even Jibreel would not come to the
Prophet ﷺ if one of his wives were
uncovered.
So he says, he called me, but he
concealed that from you.
Meaning, you could not hear him, and I
answered him, but I concealed that from you
too.
Meaning, Jibreel came, and he called the Prophet
ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ responded, but he made
sure that Aisha radiAllahu anha did not know
what's happening.
He says, the Prophet ﷺ says, I thought
that you had gone to sleep, and I
didn't want to wake you up, and I
was afraid that you would become frightened.
So he told me to go to Al
-Baqi' and pray for the people who are
buried there.
Ask Allah to forgive them.
So I asked, O Messenger of Allah, what
should we say?
Meaning, when we visit the graveyards, what should
we say?
So he said, say, and he mentioned the
du'a of what we say when we
visit the graveyards.
As-salamu alaykum ahl al-diyari mina al
-muslimina wal-mu'minin until the end of the
du'a.
And so this shows us again, that jealousy
that Aisha radiAllahu anha had, and again we
see up close some of the interactions that
the Prophet ﷺ had with her.
These are some glimpses from the life of
Aisha radiAllahu anha, some interesting stories.
Now let us look at something that we
mentioned last week, the intelligence of Aisha and
her knowledge and her inquisitive nature.
We mentioned last week that Aisha radiAllahu anha,
she had the mind of a scholar.
She was very bright, very intelligent, and she
was very inquisitive in nature.
She describes herself, she says that the companions
of the Prophet ﷺ used to hear the
hadith of RasulAllahu ﷺ and they would immediately
follow it.
So they would learn the hadith and they
would immediately implement it.
They wouldn't question, they wouldn't ask questions.
She says, while I would ask the Prophet
ﷺ questions about it.
And this is because she was his wife
and she was the most beloved to him.
So she had this informal relationship with him
and so she would question him while the
others, they were very respectful and they would
not dare question the Prophet ﷺ.
And so we mentioned last week that someone
who had this intimate relationship with the Prophet
ﷺ was needed.
So that she could ask him these questions
about certain statements that he would make.
And sometimes she would even argue, in a
respectful way obviously, but no one else could
afford to do that.
But what was the result of that?
The result of that is that we learned
so much about Islam from that.
We learned so much from that.
And this is what makes Aisha radiallahu anha
one of the top scholars of Islam of
all time.
Aisha radiallahu anha narrated to us 2,210
ahadith.
2,210 ahadith.
And she is the fifth top narrator of
hadith from among the companions.
So the number one is Abu Huraira radiallahu
anha.
Then Abdullah ibn Umar.
Then Anas ibn Malik.
Then Abdullah ibn Abbas.
And then number five is Aisha radiallahu anha.
So let's look at the kinds of questions
that she would ask.
Once the Prophet ﷺ said that whoever, on
the Day of Judgment, whoever is given the
hisaab, meaning the reckoning, the account on the
Day of Judgment, he will be punished.
So the hisaab is the questioning or the
account on the Day of Judgment.
The Prophet ﷺ says, whoever goes through that
hisaab, man husiba yawmal qiyamah, uzzib.
He will be punished.
So look at what Aisha radiallahu anha does.
Now the other companions, they would not object.
They would say, okay, you know, fine.
But now Aisha, something else is going on
in her mind.
She's thinking of an ayah in the Qur
'an where Allah ﷻ says, fasawfa yuhasabu hisaaban
yaseera.
Whoever is given their book of deeds in
their right hand, Allah says, they will be
given an easy reckoning, an easy hisaab.
So for her, this was a contradiction.
Right?
You know, how can it be that someone
who goes through a hisaab on the Day
of Judgment, how is he going to be
punished when Allah here is saying that, you
know, those who are given their record in
their right hands, they're going to have an
easy hisaab.
So she asked the Prophet ﷺ, how is
that possible when Allah says this?
So then the Prophet ﷺ said to her,
O Aisha, that is not the hisaab that
I'm talking about.
That, what Allah mentions in the Qur'an,
is Allah presenting, Allah presenting to His servant,
His believing servant, His deeds.
Right?
He said, innama thaak alAAarb.
So on the Day of Judgment, there will
be two kinds of questioning by Allah.
One is Allah will take the believers and
say, this is what you did in the
world.
You did X, Y, and Z.
Right?
And you're standing there and you're acknowledging it,
saying yes.
And the Prophet ﷺ tells us in another
hadith that until the end, you know, when
the servant thinks that's it, you know, he's
done, you know, look at all my sins,
I'm finished.
Then Allah says to him, you know, I
hid your sins in the dunya and today
I will forgive you.
So this is the believer, where Allah presents
to him, you know, his deeds.
And then he said, as for the one
who is interrogated, then he is the one
who will be punished.
So the Prophet ﷺ clarified for her that
no, there's no contradiction here.
But what he meant was something different than
what Allah was talking about.
And that is for the kafir, that Allah
will, you know, not just present to them
their good deeds, but he will interrogate them.
And, you know, they are the ones who
will be punished.
On another occasion, Aisha radiallahu anha says, I
asked the Prophet ﷺ about the ayah, يوم
تبدل الأرض غير الأرض والسماوات in Surah Ibrahim.
Allah says, on the day when the earth
will be changed to a different earth, and
the heavens will be changed, we won't be
on the same earth.
So again, look at her mind and where
it goes.
She says, O Messenger of Allah, then where
will the people be on that day?
You know, if we're not gonna be on
this earth, where are we gonna be?
The Prophet ﷺ said, على الصراط, on the
Sirat, on the bridge.
And this is in Sahih Muslim.
On another occasion, and this is also in
Sahih Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ said that the
people will be resurrected on the Day of
Judgment barefooted, naked, and uncircumcised.
So Aisha radiallahu anha says, again, look at
where her mind goes.
She says, O Messenger of Allah, will the
men and the women be together on that
day?
You know, if we're naked, won't they be
looking at us?
So the Prophet ﷺ said, O Aisha, the
matter will be too serious for anyone to
be looking at one another.
Meaning, everyone will be in a state of
terror, in a state of horror that, you
know, they're only concerned about themselves, they're not
concerned about anyone else or looking at anyone
else.
And then there's this incident, this is in
Bukhariya Muslim, a woman once came to the
Prophet ﷺ asking about ghusl, so the bath
that you take after the period.
So the Prophet ﷺ told her what to
do, how to make ghusl, and then he
said, you know, at the end when you're
done, purify, clean yourself, purify yourself with a
piece of cloth scented with perfume, with musk.
So that's all the Prophet ﷺ said, right?
So the woman, she asked, how should I
purify myself with it?
What am I supposed to do with it?
So the Prophet ﷺ said, just purify yourself
with it.
She said, how?
Now the Prophet ﷺ didn't want to go
into the details of what to do.
Because one of his characteristics was that he
was very shy.
He was very shy, and this is something
embarrassing, you don't talk about these details with
women.
So he said, subhanAllah, just purify yourself with
it.
So Aisha radiallahu anha, she was there, she
says, I pulled the woman to me, and
then I explained to her what to do.
I said, wipe away, I told her, wipe
away the traces of the blood with it.
So again, look at how she reacted to
this situation with such wisdom and intelligence.
Also we have the famous hadith of what
do we say on Laylatul Qadr?
We have learned what to say based on
a question that Aisha radiallahu anha asked.
So she asked the Prophet ﷺ, O Messenger
of Allah, if I was to witness Laylatul
Qadr, what should I say?
In my salah, in my dua, what should
I say on Laylatul Qadr?
The Prophet ﷺ said to her, Say, Allahumma
innakaAAafuun tuhibbulAAafuwa faAAafuAAanni O Allah, you are the
one who pardons, and you love pardoning, so
pardon me, so forgive me.
Again, if she was not to ask that
question, and the Prophet ﷺ was not to
respond, how would we learn what to say
on that very special night?
Also, from the previous story that we mentioned,
when Aisha followed the Prophet ﷺ to the
graveyard, al-Baqi' and he explained to her
at the end why he went and...
At the end of the whole incident, even
though she was in an embarrassing situation, still
she asked a question.
She asked a question.
She was someone who wanted to seek knowledge.
So what did she say at the very
end of that story?
She said, So you went there, you made
dua, what should we say when we go
and visit the graveyard?
What should we say when we go and
visit the graveyard?
And this is where we learn the dua
of what we say when we visit the
graveyard.
السلام عليكم أهل الديار من المؤمنين والمسلمين يرحم
الله المستقدمين منا والمستخيرين وإنا إن شاء الله
بكم للاحقون In a hadith in Abu Dawood,
Aisha رضي الله عنها says, I never saw
the Messenger of Allah ﷺ laugh fully to
such an extent that I could see his
tonsils, like he wouldn't open up his mouth
and laugh like that.
She says he would only smile and when
he saw clouds or wind, his face would
show signs of fear.
So I asked him, I asked him, O
Messenger of Allah ﷺ, when the people see
the clouds, they rejoice, hoping that this cloud
is bringing rain.
And I noticed that when you see a
cloud, there is fear or dislike in your
face.
So he said, O Aisha, what gives me
safety from the fact that it might contain
a punishment?
There were people who were punished by the
wind.
When those people saw the punishment, they said,
this is a cloud which is coming to
give us rain.
As Allah ﷻ tells us about the people
of Ad in Surah Al-Ahqaf, how when
they saw this cloud coming, they said, Oh,
this cloud is bringing us rain.
But Allah tells us that that was the
punishment that destroyed them.
Now Aisha رضي الله عنها was also a
major reference after the death of the Prophet
ﷺ.
And we have to understand that she was
only 18 years old when the Prophet ﷺ
passed away.
She was young.
She was only 18 when the Prophet ﷺ
passed away.
So now, after spending that much time with
the Prophet ﷺ and having gained the knowledge
that she did from him, she became the
reference point.
You know, whenever the companions wanted to verify
something, a hadith, a certain ruling, they would
come to her.
Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari رضي الله عنه
who was one of the leading scholars among
the companions.
Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari.
He says, whenever there was a hadith that
we disputed over or we did not understand,
we would go to Aisha and she would
resolve it for us.
She would explain it to us.
And look at this story where Abdullah ibn
Umar رضي الله عنه and Abdullah ibn Umar
was the kind of companion who was very,
very keen over doing good deeds and taking
every opportunity.
Whenever he would hear a hadith, he would
immediately implement it.
So Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه he narrates
that the Prophet ﷺ said, whoever prays the
janaza, whoever prays a janaza over a dead
Muslim, he will get the reward equal to
one qirat.
And the Prophet ﷺ explained, he said one
qirat is similar to now Uhud.
And the mountain of Uhud in Medina is
a huge massive mountain.
So reward equal to that.
And then the Prophet ﷺ said, whoever then
after that follows the janaza until the person
is buried, then he will get two qirats.
He will get two qirats.
So when Abdullah ibn Umar when he heard
this, he couldn't believe it.
Because it was his first time hearing this
hadith and this reward.
So he asked Abu Hurairah, are you sure
you heard this from the Prophet ﷺ?
He said yes.
So then he sent a message to Aisha
asking her about this hadith.
So look at how she was a reference
point.
He sent asking her about this hadith.
And he was so nervous.
He feels that he's missed out on so
many rewards.
And he had pebbles in his hand.
And then the messenger came back and said,
Aisha radiallahu anha has confirmed that yes, the
Prophet ﷺ did indeed say this.
So then he threw the pebbles and he
said in that case we have missed many
qirats.
We have missed many qirats.
Meaning that he was regretful that he missed
so many opportunities to gain a lot of
hasanat and reward.
But the lesson here is that Ibn Umar
radiallahu anha trusted the report of Aisha radiallahu
anha.
He didn't say well, let's investigate further.
Let's go and ask so and so.
Let's go and ask Abu Bakr or Umar
or some of the other companions.
He said that as long as Aisha radiallahu
anha has confirmed it, then for me it's
resolved.
So this shows us how she was a
leading scholar from among the companions and she
was a reference point.
And people would also travel long distances to
Medina just to narrate from her.
And so after the death of the Prophet
ﷺ for most of her life, the rest
of her life, she remained in Medina.
And so she would sit at her home
and she would have a curtain drawn in
front of her.
And then she would narrate a hadith.
Whoever would come, she would narrate a hadith
and she would answer questions.
And this is how her knowledge was preserved.
So the tabi'oon, the next generation, they
took all of these hadith from the companions
and then they narrated it to the next
generation.
And Aisha radiallahu anha was one of the
leading narrators of hadith.
As for her ibadah, Aisha radiallahu anha, it
was not just that she was a person
of knowledge, but she was also a person
who would put that knowledge to practice.
So she used to fast, voluntary fasting.
She would fast throughout the year and she
would pray.
Qiyam al-layl.
She was not just a scholar, but a
scholar who puts their knowledge to action.
And she would also give in sadaqah, being
brought up in the home of Abu Bakr
radiallahu anha.
And we know the generosity of Abu Bakr
and how he would give all of his
wealth in sadaqah.
And then after that, spending time with the
Prophet ﷺ.
So once, and this is in the time
of the Prophet ﷺ, a goat was slaughtered
and Aisha radiallahu anha gave it all away
in sadaqah.
She distributed it, except for the shoulder.
She kept the shoulder, why?
Because the Prophet ﷺ, that was the part
of the animal that he used to love
the most.
He used to like eating the shoulder.
So he asked her, what happened with the
goat?
She said, I gave it all away except
for the shoulder.
So the Prophet ﷺ said to her, So
she said, the only thing that remains is
the shoulder.
The only thing that remains is the shoulder.
So the Prophet ﷺ said to her, No.
All of it has remained except for the
shoulder.
All of it has remained except for the
shoulder.
Meaning, that what you gave in sadaqah, that
is what remains.
Meaning, that is what we have.
That is what you have kept for yourself.
Meaning, that whatever we give in sadaqah, you
know, it's the reward that we are gaining.
Right?
So, he's saying, you should have given even
the shoulder.
And once, after the death of the Prophet
ﷺ, her nephew, who is her nephew?
Abdullah ibn Zubayr.
So, Zubayr ibn al-Awam, the famous companion,
he married Asma'a.
We mentioned Asma'a earlier.
She's the elder sister of Aisha.
So, she had a son, Abdullah ibn Zubayr,
the famous companion, Abdullah ibn Zubayr.
So this is the nephew of Aisha.
He once came and gave Aisha radiallahu anha
a hundred thousand dirhams.
A hundred thousand dirhams.
What did she do with it?
She went and she distributed all of it.
By the evening, all of it was gone.
And it so happened that she was fasting
that day.
So, her servant came to her, and she
said, you should have kept something, you know,
at least a dirham, a few dirhams, so
that we could have bought you something to
break your fast with.
So Aisha radiallahu anha says to her, if
only you had reminded me.
Meaning, she forgot.
And she says, if only you had reminded
me, I would have done so.
But now, Abdullah ibn Zubayr radiallahu anha, he
heard about what she did.
That she gave away everything that he had
come and gifted to her.
And he became angry, he became upset.
That, you know, this is a huge amount
of money, I wanted you to benefit from
it.
I wanted you to use it.
So, when she found out that he got
angry, she took an oath that she will
never talk to him ever again.
Because, you know, how can you criticize me
for doing a good deed, you know, giving
sadaqah.
So, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, he was in a
problem now, this is his aunt.
And, you know, he can't speak to her
ever again.
So he tried, he tried sending people, you
know, to try to convince her to, you
know, to change her mind.
Nothing worked.
Finally, he got two of the tabi'een,
the students, of Aisha radiallahu anha, Masrooq and
Miswar.
These two tabi'een, they would often come
and visit Aisha and ask her to narrate
a hadith and what not.
So, he went with them.
He said, let's go, I want the two
of you to go, and, you know, ask
her permission to enter.
So they went, and when they got there,
when they got there, they asked her permission
to enter.
She said, yes, enter.
They asked all of us.
She said, yes, all of you.
Abdullah ibn Zubayr was hiding, you know, under
the garments of one of them.
So, she said, yes, all of you.
She had no idea that there was a
third person there.
So, they entered, and, so they entered the
home, but then there's a curtain between her
and them.
Now that he's inside of her house, because
if he went alone, she would say, no,
I'm not speaking to you, right?
So now that he got into the house,
he went behind the curtain, because obviously, you
know, he is her mahram.
He went behind the curtain, and he hugged
her, and he apologized, and he asked her
to forgive him.
And, she did.
She did.
And, but because she took an oath, she
had to, you know, give a kaffarah, expiation.
So, what did she do?
She freed 40 slaves.
She freed 40 slaves.
And so, Aisha radiallahu anha, after the death
of the Prophet ﷺ, she went on to
live another 47 to 48 years, mostly in
Medina.
And she passed away at her home, in
Medina, after an illness.
And that was on the 17th of Ramadan,
of the year 58 after the hijrah.
And, she was 66 or 67 years old
at the time.
And, it was Abu Huraira radiallahu anhu, who
prayed, who led the janazah.
And, she was buried in Baqi'ah.
She was buried in Baqi'ah.
As for the Prophet ﷺ, he was buried
in her apartment.
Right?
And when Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu passed away,
he was buried next to the Prophet ﷺ.
He is her father.
But then when Umar radiallahu anhu was passed
away, he was brought, and he was buried
next to Abu Bakr.
From that day onwards, Aisha radiallahu anha would
cover herself, in her own home.
Because Umar radiallahu anhu was there, and he
is not a mahrum for her.
Obviously, she didn't have to do that.
He's dead.
Right?
But, you know, she did it nonetheless.
Alright, we conclude with, we conclude with the
virtues, of Aisha radiallahu anha.
Her fadha'il, you know, what makes her
special.
We have already seen a lot of, things
that make, Aisha radiallahu anha special.
But, we also have certain explicit, statements of
the Prophet ﷺ.
The Prophet ﷺ was once asked, who is
the most beloved of all people to you?
Who is the most beloved person to you?
Without any hesitation, he said Aisha.
He didn't say Abu Bakr, Umar.
Without any hesitation, he said Aisha.
Then he was asked, and from among the
men, he said her father.
Meaning Abu Bakr.
And in Sahih Bukhari, Anas radiallahu anha narrates,
that the Prophet ﷺ said, the superiority of
Aisha over all other women, is like the
superiority of Thareed.
Which is a kind of dish, which is
mixed with bread and meat, and broth.
So, he said, it is like the superiority
of this dish, over all other kinds of
dishes and food.
So, it is, you know, the best dish.
Likewise, Aisha compared to all other women.
Besides these two ahadith, we already mentioned how,
the Prophet ﷺ married Aisha radiallahu anha.
This counts among her virtues, that makes her
stand out among the other wives.
The fact, that, you know, she came to
him in a dream.
And we mentioned this last week.
Jibreel said to the Prophet ﷺ, that this
is your wife, in the dunya and akhira.
This didn't happen with any other of his
wives.
Also, the fact that she was the only
wife, that the Prophet ﷺ married, who had
not been previously married.
Also, among her virtues, is that the Prophet
ﷺ, would not receive wahil, he would not
receive revelation, in the bed of any of
his wives, apart from Aisha.
The Prophet ﷺ said to Umm Salama, his
other wife, he said to her, O Umm
Salama, do not bug me, do not bother
me concerning Aisha.
For, by Allah, the revelation has never come
to me, under the blanket of any of
you, of you women, besides her.
Besides her.
There was a story behind this, basically.
You know, the companions would come and give
gifts, to the Prophet ﷺ, on the day
that it was, that he was with Aisha.
Because, you know, she was the most beloved
wife to him.
They knew that.
So they would come and give gifts on
her day.
So some of the other wives, they got
jealous, and you know, they, they had Umm
Salama go and, you know, bring the case
to the Prophet ﷺ.
And say, you know, why don't you tell
the people, to give gifts on our days.
So that's when the Prophet ﷺ said this.
That, you know, she's special, the revelation from
Allah, it comes to me, while I'm in
that bed, and not in the bed of
any of you.
Also, she was the only wife, who had
more knights, than any other of his wives.
As we know, in Islam, if there is,
polygamy, the man has to, treat the wives
equally.
So, although, you know, if his heart, inclines
more towards one wife, that's not, something he
can control.
As we can see in the case of
the Prophet ﷺ, he can't control, you know,
who he loves more.
But, he has to, act justly, in terms
of, spending on them, spending time, with them.
Each, of his wives, had one knight.
Except for Aisha.
But, why did that happen?
It wasn't the Prophet ﷺ, who gave her
an extra knight.
It was, Saudah, his other wife, Saudah, رضي
الله عنها.
And, we're gonna talk about her life as
well.
Saudah رضي الله عنها.
She saw how much, the Prophet ﷺ loved
Aisha.
So she gave up her knight, to Aisha.
And she was an elder woman.
She gave up her knight for Aisha رضي
الله عنها.
Also, among the virtues of Aisha رضي الله
عنها is, that the Prophet ﷺ passed away,
in her house, on her day, in her
arms, and he was buried in, her, home.
And, also, two very special things happened.
Number one, we're talking about, at the time
of the death of the Prophet ﷺ.
Number one, her brother Abdurrahman came to visit,
and the Prophet ﷺ saw him, with a
miswak.
So the Prophet ﷺ started to look at
the miswak.
He was ill, he was on his deathbed.
So Aisha asked the Prophet ﷺ, do you
want it?
He said yes.
So she took it, and then she put
it in her mouth.
She was fixing it up, for the Prophet
ﷺ.
And then she gave it to him, for
the Prophet ﷺ to use.
So, what is special about this?
It was her saliva, that last mixed with
the saliva, of the Prophet ﷺ.
And so this is among her virtues.
The second, incident, is, that, the very last
moment, of the life of the Prophet ﷺ,
was, while his head was in the lap
of Aisha.
He breathed his last, while, he was in
her lap.
Imam al-Dahabi, the famous scholar, he says,
that, he mentions the hadith, where, the soul
of a Prophet, leaves, its body in the
place that, that Prophet loves the most.
He says, so it is proven that, the
Prophet ﷺ died, in his most favorite place.
Meaning, the house of Aisha radiallahu anha.
And then that is also where, he was
buried.
Also what makes Aisha radiallahu anha, special, as
we mentioned, her intelligence, and the knowledge, that
she gained.
And so there is no comparison, between her,
and other, female companions.
You know, the only other, female companion, close
to her, or next, after her, in terms
of narrating ahadith, is Umm Salama, who only
narrated, some 380 ahadith.
Three hundred, and eighty ahadith.
Compared to Aisha, who narrated, as we mentioned,
two thousand, two hundred and ten.
In fact, all of his wives combined, the
Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the mothers of the believers.
All of their, narrations combined, only come to,
about four hundred ahadith.
Excluding Aisha.
And, Hisham ibn Urwah, Hisham ibn Urwah, he
was a prominent narrator, of hadith.
He says, I have never seen, anyone, who
could have knowledge, of an ayah, or an
obligatory act, or a sunnah, or poetry, or
history, or lineage, or medicine, better than Aisha.
So I once asked her, what about medicine?
How did you learn medicine?
You know, imagine, she even had knowledge, of
medicine.
So, she was asked, you know, how did
you learn it?
She said, when I was sick, the Prophet
ﷺ, prescribed treatment for me, as he did,
when people would become ill.
And, I would also hear, people prescribing treatment,
to one another, so I memorized, those prescriptions.
And so, these are, some of the virtues,
of Aisha radiallahu anha, that make her special.
Finally, we spoke about, Khadijah radiallahu anha, and
we mentioned her virtues.
And we mentioned, how she was, you know,
the most beloved, to the Prophet ﷺ.
And, the Prophet ﷺ also mentioned, her being,
one of the four best women, of, of
all time.
Right?
We mentioned that hadith.
So now the question is, after we've learnt
about, the virtues of Aisha radiallahu anha, which
one is better?
Who is better?
Khadijah or Aisha?
Khadijah.
Anyone else?
So, the scholars have actually, debated this question.
Some said it is Khadijah, some said it
is Aisha.
Ibn Taymiyyah, he, you know, he comes to
a nice conclusion.
He says, Khadijah radiallahu anha, was better than
Aisha, with respect to the Prophet ﷺ.
Meaning, she was, better for the Prophet ﷺ
personally.
But Aisha, was better than Khadijah, with respect
to the ummah in general.
How?
Khadijah radiallahu anha, was more beneficial to the
Prophet ﷺ, when he needed support, when he
was in Makkah.
Right?
When he was all alone, and his people
were rejecting him.
And so she stood, and she was his
main support.
But then Aisha, she lived on, after the
death of the Prophet ﷺ, and benefited the
ummah, with her many narrations, and her knowledge.
Something that, Khadijah radiallahu anha, did not do.
Right?
So, in this way, we're able to reconcile,
the two.
And, in this way, each one is, you
know, better in her own, in her own
way.
And Allah knows best.
We'll stop here, and inshallah, next week we'll
move on to, another one of the, mothers
of the believers.
Wasallillahumma wasallim ala nabiyyina muhammad wa ala alihi
wa sahbihi ajma'een Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh