you are the Messenger of Allah’s wife—he never married another virgin besides you—and your vindication was sent down from heaven.

When Ibn al-Zubayr arrived, she said to him, “Ibn ʿAbbās has just come, praised me, and I wish I had been something forgotten, lost to memory.” (1)

al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad said: ʿĀʾishah fell ill, so Ibn ʿAbbās came and said, “Mother of the Believers, you are about to join your truthful forerunner: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Abū Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him.” (2)

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿUlwān informed us; Ibn Qudāmah informed us—in the year 611 AH; Muḥammad ibn al-Baṭṭī informed us; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan informed us; Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān informed us; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khuzaymah narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Abī al-ʿAwwām narrated to us; Mūsā ibn Dāwūd narrated to us; Abū Masʿūd al-Jarrār narrated to us, from ʿAlī ibn al-Aqmar, who said:

Whenever Masrūq reported from ʿĀʾishah he would say, “The Truthful Lady, daughter of the Truthful Man, the beloved of Allah’s beloved, the one whose innocence was proclaimed from above the seven heavens, related this to me, and I do not belie her.” (3)

al-Aʿmash—on the authority of Abū al-Ḍuḥā, from Masrūq—said: “We said to him, ‘Was she…’”