your weak). Reported by al-Bukhari in this form as a mursal report, for Musʿab ibn Saʿd is a tābiʿī. Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Burqānī, however, recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ with a continuous chain from Musʿab on the authority of his father (may Allah be pleased with him).

13/272 — Abū al-Dardāʾ ʿUwaymir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say, “Seek out the weak for me, for you are granted victory and provision only through your weak.” Reported by Abū Dāwūd with a good chain of transmission.

[Commentary]
All these narrations corroborate what has already been stated about showing kindness to the weak, the orphans, the girls, and the like. In the first ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah the incident resembles the one just mentioned, except that in the earlier report ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) gave the woman a single date, which the mother split between her two daughters.

In the present ḥadīth she gave her three dates: she handed one date to each girl, then raised the third to her own mouth to eat it. The girls pleaded for it—meaning they fixed their gaze on the date their mother had lifted—so the mother did not eat it; instead, she split it in half and shared it between them. Each girl therefore ate one and a half dates while the mother ate nothing. I related this to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him of what the woman had done. He said, “Allah has assured Paradise for her because of that, or has delivered her from the Fire by means of it,” meaning that because she