—once sent to ʿĀʾishah one hundred thousand dirhams, and—by Allah—night had not fallen before she had distributed every coin of it.

Her maidservant said to her, “If only you had bought us a piece of meat for one dirham from that money!”

She replied, “Why did you not tell me? (1)

Yahyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah narrated, through Ḥajjāj from ʿAṭāʾ, that Muʿāwiyah sent ʿĀʾishah a necklace valued at one hundred thousand, and she divided it among the Mothers of the Believers.

Al-Aʿmash related—through Tamīm ibn Salamah, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah—that she once gave seventy thousand in charity while she was still patching the side of her own garment. ﵂

Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from Ibn al-Munkadir, from Umm Dharrāh, who said:

Ibn al-Zubayr sent to ʿĀʾishah a sum of money in two large sacks amounting to one hundred thousand. She called for a tray and began distributing it among the people.

When evening came she said, “Girl, bring me my meal to break the fast.”

Umm Dharrāh said, “O Mother of the Believers, could you not have bought us some meat for a single dirham?”

She answered, “Do not reproach me; had you reminded me, I would have done so. (2)

Mutarrif ibn Ṭarīf narrated, through Abū Isḥāq, from Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd, who said:

ʿUmar assigned ten thousand—ten thousand—to each of the Mothers of the Believers, but he added two thousand for ʿĀʾishah, saying, “She is the beloved of the Messenger of Allah (3) ﷺ.”

Shuʿbah reported to us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from his father, that ʿĀʾishah used to fast perpetually throughout the year. (4)