It is cited in Kitāb al-Maʿrifah, and our own teacher, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ, has likewise transmitted it.
Al-Bayhaqī said: Al-Wāqidī claimed that Khadijah and Abū Ṭālib died three years before the Hijrah, in the same year they emerged from the Valley, and that Khadijah passed away thirty-five nights before Abū Ṭālib.
I say: What they intend is that this took place before the five daily prayers were enjoined on the Night of the Isrāʾ. It would have been more appropriate for us to speak of the deaths of Abū Ṭālib and Khadijah before mentioning the Isrāʾ, as al-Bayhaqī and others have done; however, we postponed it until after the Isrāʾ for a purpose that will become clear to you later, for by doing so the discussion flows more smoothly and the chapter remains coherent, as you will see, God willing.
Al-Bukhārī said: Qutaybah related to us; Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl ibn Ghazwān narrated to us, from ʿUmārah, from Abū Zurʿah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: Gabriel came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, “O Messenger of Allah, here is Khadijah coming to you with a vessel containing sauce—or food or drink. When she reaches you, convey to her greetings of peace from her Lord and from me, and give her the glad tidings of a house in Paradise made of pearl, wherein there is neither noise nor fatigue.”
Muslim also recorded it through the narration of Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl.
Al-Bukhārī further said: Musaddad related to us; Yaḥyā narrated to us; from Ismāʿīl who said: I asked ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, “Did the Prophet ﷺ give Khadijah glad tidings?” He replied, “Yes—of a house in Paradise made of pearl, wherein there is no noise and no toil.” Bukhārī and Muslim likewise recorded it through other chains from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid.
Al-Suhaylī said: She was granted the glad tidings of a house in Paradise made of qasab—that is, hollow pearls—because she captured the first prize in the race to faith. In that house there is neither clamour nor hardship, for she never raised her voice above that of the Prophet ﷺ and never wearied him for a single day; she never cried out at him, nor did she ever cause him harm.
The two Imams also included it in their Ṣaḥīḥs, through Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that she