—from his mother—that when ʿĀʾishah learned that ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr was in a house of hers that she had sold, he resented the sale of that house and said, “By Allah, ʿĀʾishah will either stop selling her properties or I shall place her under interdiction.”

ʿĀʾishah asked, “Did he really say that?”
They answered, “Yes, he did.”
She declared, “I swear before Allah that I shall never speak to him until death separates us.”

Her boycott of him went on for a long time, and Allah⦗1⦘ diminished him in all his affairs because of it. He sought the intercession of everyone whom he thought carried weight with her, yet she still refused to speak to him.

When the estrangement dragged on, he approached al-Miswar ibn Makhramah and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad ibn ʿAbd Yaghūth, asking them to wrap him in their cloaks, seek permission to enter, and—when she granted it—say, “All of us?” so that they could bring him in to ʿĀʾishah. They did exactly that.

She said, “Yes, all of you may enter,” unaware of what they had planned. Ibn al-Zubayr entered with them, drew back the curtain, embraced her, and wept; ʿĀʾishah wept profusely as well. Ibn al-Zubayr implored her by Allah and by the bond of kinship, and al-Miswar and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān did likewise, reminding her of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who said, “It is not lawful for a Muslim to shun his brother for more than three days.”

After their persistent appeals, she finally spoke to him—though he had feared she never would. She then dispatched a sum of money to Yemen, from which forty slaves were purchased, and she set them free.

ʿAwf said: I later heard her recall that vow and weep until her head-covering was soaked.⦗2⦘