eat any of it. She then rose and left. Later the Prophet ﷺ entered, and I informed him of what had taken place. He said, “Whoever is tried with any of these daughters and treats them well, they will be a shield for him from the Fire.” Agreed upon.
274 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: A poor woman came to me carrying her two daughters. I gave her three dates. She handed a date to each of them and raised the third to her mouth to eat it, but her daughters asked her for it, so she split the date she had meant to eat between them. Her conduct amazed me, and I told the Messenger of Allah ﷺ what she had done. He said, “Allah has assured Paradise for her because of that, or has freed her from the Fire because of it.” Reported by Muslim.
275 – Abu Shurayḥ, Khuwaylid ibn ʿAmr al-Khuzāʿī (may Allah be pleased with him), said that the Prophet ﷺ declared: “O Allah, I place under Your protection the rights of the two weak ones—the orphan and the woman.” A ḥasan hadith, narrated by al-Nasāʾī with a good chain. (2)
The verb “uḥarriju” here means: I hold anyone who neglects their rights sinful, I issue a forceful warning, and I emphatically forbid such negligence.
276 – Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ (may Allah be pleased with them both) reported: Saʿd considered himself superior to those below him, so the Prophet ﷺ said, “You are granted victory and provision only because of your weak ones.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it in this disconnected (mursal) form, for Muṣʿab is a successor (tābiʿī). Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Burqānī narrated it in his Ṣaḥīḥ with a connected chain from Muṣʿab on the authority of his father. (3)
277 – Abu al-Dardāʾ, ʿUwaymir (may Allah be pleased with him), said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ