1868 – ʿAwf ibn Mālik ibn al-Tufayl transmitted that ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) related the following: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both) once said about a sale or a gift she had given him, “By Allah, ʿĀʾishah must stop, or I shall place her under interdiction.” When she heard of it she exclaimed, “Did he really say that?” They replied, “Yes.” She said, “I vow to Allah that I shall never speak to Ibn al-Zubayr again.”

After the estrangement had gone on for some time, Ibn al-Zubayr sought someone to intercede with her, but she said, “By Allah, I will never accept intercession on his behalf, nor will I break my vow (1).”

When the matter became intolerable for Ibn al-Zubayr, he spoke to al-Miswar ibn Makhramah and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Aswad ibn ʿAbd Yaghūth, saying, “I adjure you by Allah (2) to take me in to ʿĀʾishah, for it is not lawful for her to vow to cut me off.” Al-Miswar and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān brought him with them and sought permission to enter upon ʿĀʾishah, saying, “Peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings—may we come in?” She answered, “Come in.” They asked, “All of us?” She said, “Yes, all of you,” unaware that Ibn al-Zubayr was with them.

When they entered, Ibn al-Zubayr slipped past the curtain, embraced ʿĀʾishah, and began pleading with her in tears. Al-Miswar and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān also implored her (3) to talk to him and accept his plea, saying, “The Prophet ﷺ forbade the kind of estrangement you know of, and it is not permissible for a Muslim to shun his brother for more than three nights.” After they had urged and reminded her repeatedly, she too wept and said, “I have made a vow, and a vow is a serious matter.” They persisted until she spoke to Ibn al-Zubayr, and as expiation for her vow she emancipated forty slaves. Thereafter, whenever she remembered her vow she would weep until her tears soaked her veil.

Reported by al-Bukhārī.

1869 – ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out to the martyrs of Uhud and, eight years later, performed the funeral prayer for them as though bidding farewell to the living and the dead. Then he ascended to