Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah - Nasir al-Din al-Albani - (7/1574)

Silsilat al-Ahadith al-SahihahNasir al-Din al-Albani

It also has a supporting narration from Jābir, who said:

Abū Bakr came seeking permission to enter upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. He found people sitting at his door, none of whom had been granted permission. Abū Bakr was then admitted and entered. Then ʿUmar came and sought permission, and he too was admitted. He found the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sitting silently and troubled, with his wives around him.

He said, “I shall say something that will make the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, laugh.” So he said, “Messenger of Allah, if only you had seen the daughter of Khārijah asking me for maintenance! I got up and struck her on the neck.” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, laughed and said, “As you can see, those around me are asking me for maintenance.”

Abū Bakr then rose and struck ʿĀʾishah on the neck, and ʿUmar rose and struck Ḥafṣah on the neck, each of them saying, “You ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for what he does not possess!” They said, “By Allah, we shall never again ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for anything he does not have.”

He then kept apart from them for a month—or twenty-nine days. Then this verse was revealed to him: “O Prophet, say to your wives …” until he reached: “… a great reward for those of you who do good.”

He said: He began with ʿĀʾishah and said, “ʿĀʾishah, I wish to present you with a matter, and I would prefer that you not be hasty concerning it until you have consulted your parents.”

She said, “What is it, Messenger of Allah?” He then recited the verse to her.

She said, “Concerning you, Messenger of Allah, should I consult my parents?! Rather, I choose Allah, His Messenger, and the Abode of the Hereafter. But I ask you not to tell any of your wives what I have said.”

He said, “None of them will ask me without my telling her. Allah did not send me to impose hardship or to seek hardship; rather, He sent me as a teacher and one who makes matters easy.”

It was narrated by Muslim (4/187–188), al-Bayhaqī in his Sunan (7/38), Abū Yaʿlā (2253), al-Baghawī in his exegesis (6/346), and Aḥmad (3/328), through routes from Zakariyyā ibn Isḥāq, from Abū al-Zubayr, from him, with this wording.

وله شاهد عن جابر قال: دخل أبو بكر يستأذن على رسول الله ﷺ، فوجد الناس جلوساً ببابه لم يؤذن لأحد منهم، قال: فأذن لأ بي بكر، فدخل، ثم أقبل عمر، فاستأذن، فأذن له، فوجد النبي ﷺ جالساً حوله نساؤه واجماً ساكتاً، قال: فقال: لأقولن شيئاً أضحك النبي ﷺ، فقال: يا رسول الله! لو رأيت بنت خارجة ساْلتني النفقة، فقمت إليها فوجأت عنقها، فضحك رسول الله ﷺ، وقال: "من حولي كما ترى يساْلنني النفقة "، فقام أبو بكر إلى عائشة يجأ عنقها، فقام عمر إلى حفصة يجأ عنقها، كلاهما يقول؛ تساْلن رسول الله ﷺ ما ليس عنده، فقلن: والله! لا نسأل رسول الله ﷺ شيئاً أبداً ليس عنده، ثم اعتزلهن شهراً أو تسعاً وعشرين، ثم نزلت عليه هذه الآية: (يا أيها النبي قل لأزواجك) له حتى بلغ (للمحسنات منكن أجراً عظيماً) ؛ قال: فبدأ بعائشة، فقال: "يا عائشة! إني أريد أن أعرض عليك أمراً، أحب أن لا تعجلي فيه حتى تستشيري أبويك "، قالت: وما هو يا رسول الله؟! فتلا عليها الآية، قالت: أفيك يا رسول الله! أستشير أبوي؟! بل أختار الله ورسوله والدار الآخرة، وأسالك أن لا تخبر امرأة من نسائك بالذي قلت، قال: (لا تساْلني امرأة منهنَّ إلا أخبرتها، إن الله لم يبعثني معنِّتاً ولامتعنِّتاً؛ ولكن بعثني معلماً ميسراً) . رواه مسلم (٤/١٨٧-١٨٨) ، والبيهقي في "سننه " (٧/٣٨) ، وأبو يعلى (٢٢٥٣) ، والبغوي في "تفسيره " (٦/٣٤٦) ، وأحمد (٣/٣٢٨) من طرق عن زكريا ابن إسحاق عن أبي الزبير عنه به.