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She said, “One day Abū Zarʿ went out while the leather churns were being shaken. On the road he met a woman who had with her two sons, lively as two young leopards, playing beneath her waist with two pomegranates. So he divorced me and married her.
After him I married a noble man—he rode a spirited mount, wielded a choice spear, and entrusted to me a rich herd. He gave me a pair from every kind of livestock and said, ‘Eat, Umm Zarʿ, and provide for your family.’ Yet if I were to add up everything he has given me, it would not equal the smallest vessel of Abū Zarʿ.”
Aisha said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said to me: ⦗141⦘
قَالَتْ: خَرَجَ أَبُو زَرْعٍ وَالْأَوْطَابُ تُمْخَضُ فَلَقِيَ امْرَأَةً مَعَهَا وَلَدَانِ لَهَا
كَالْفَهْدَيْنِ يَلْعَبَانِ مِنْ تَحْتِ خَصْرِهَا بِرُمَّانَتَيْنِ فَطَلَّقَنِي وَنَكَحَهَا فَنَكَحْتُ بَعْدَهُ رَجُلًا سَرِيًّا رَكِبَ شَرِيًّا وَأَخَذَ خَطِّيًّا وَأَرَاحَ عَلَيَّ نَعَمًا ثَرِيًّا وَأَعْطَانِي مِنْ كُلِّ رَائِحَةٍ زَوْجًا وَقَالَ: كُلِي أُمَّ زَرْعٍ وَمِيرِي أَهْلَكِ. فَلَوْ جَمَعْتُ كل شئ أَعْطَانِيهِ مَا بَلَغَ أَصْغَرَ آنِيَةِ أَبِي زَرْعٍ
قَالَتْ عائشة ﵂: فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ َ:
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