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when Abū Usayd al-Saʿidī was married⦗1⦘ he invited the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions. No one prepared or served them any food except his wife, Umm Usayd, who—according to another report—had soaked a few dates overnight in a stone bowl⦗2⦘. When the Prophet ﷺ had finished eating, she strained the infusion⦗3⦘ and offered it to him as a gesture of honour. [That day his wife waited upon them, though she herself was the bride]⦗4⦘.
(1) That is, he consummated the marriage with his wife. Lisan al-Arab states: "arras and a‘ras both mean to take a woman as a bride and to enter upon her; likewise, arras biha and a‘ras."
(2) A vessel usually made of copper or similar metals; this narration specifies that it was made of stone.
(3) Meaning: she mixed (or kneaded) it with her hand. The verb occurs in both the triliteral form mathatha and the quadriliteral form amathatha.
(4) Reported by al-Bukhari (9/200, 205, 206); al-Bukhari also cites it in al-Adab al-mufrad, no. 746; by Muslim (6/103); by Abu Awana in his Sahih (8/131/1–2); by Ibn Majah (nos. 590–591); by al-Ruyani in his Musnad (28/189/1–190/1); by al-Tabarani in al-Awsat (1/132/1); and by al-Baghawi in Sharh al-sunnah (3/197/1). Al-Hafiz comments:
لما عرس١ أبو أسيد الساعدي دعا النبي ﷺ وأصحابه فما صنع لهم طعاما ولا قدمه إليهم إلا امرأته أم أسيد بلت وفي رواية: أنقعت تمرات في تور٢ من حجارة من الليل فلما فرغ النبي ﷺ من الطعام أماثته٣ له فسقته تتحفه بذلك [فكانت امرأته يومئذ خادمهم وهي العروس] ٤.
١ أي: دخل بزوجته قال في "اللسان":
"وقد عرس وأعرس: اتخذها عرسا ودخل بها وكذلك عرس بها وأعرس"
٢ إناء يكون من نحاس وغيره وقد بين هنا أنه كان من الحجارة.
٣ أي: مرسته بيدها يقال: ماثته وأماثته ثلاثيا ورباعيا.
٤ رواه البخاري ٩/٢٠٠ و ٢٠٥ و ٢٠٦ وفي الأدب المفرد رقم ٧٤٦ ومسلم ٦/١٠٣ وأبو عوانة في "صحيحه" ٨/١٣١/١ – ٢ وابن ماجة ٥٩٠ – ٥٩١ والروياني في مسنده ٢٨/١٨٩/١ – ١٩٠/١ والطبراني في الأوسط ١/١٣٢/١ والبغوي في شرح السنة ٣/١٩٧/١ قال الحافظ: