Bukhari

Hadith Commentary:
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Tharid is when pieces of bread are soaked in meat; neither meat alone without bread, nor just pieces of bread without meat, are called tharid. This describes a time when dishes cooked with meat were very rare, and such food was considered a delicacy. Even today, in terms of satiation, taste, benefit, and ease of digestion, it has no equal. In fact, physicians have even written that this food can make the elderly feel young again.

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The virtues indicated in this hadith are not found in other women. Being the wife of the best of the Prophets (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) is the greatest virtue, meaning she is the special beloved of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam). She also surpasses others in knowledge and lineage. Lady Khadijah (radi Allahu anha) and Fatimah (radi Allahu anha) possess virtues for other reasons, but the comprehensive quality due to which the comparison with tharid was made is not found in any other wife, the explanation of which we will provide later.

Hadith Commentary:
Tharid refers to the food that is prepared by mixing bread and broth together.
By "perfection" (kamal) here is meant that perfection which, surpassing sainthood (wilayah), reaches close to prophethood (nubuwwah), but prophethood itself is not attained.
This interpretation became necessary because many women have attained sainthood (wilayah), but no woman has ever been a prophet (nabi).
There is consensus (ijma') on this, but Ash'ari has stated that six women were prophets: Hawwa (Eve), the mother of Musa (Moses), Hajarah (Hagar), Asiyah, and Maryam (Mary).
And Allah knows best what is correct.

Hadith Commentary:
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Prophethood is not included in this perfection, because there is consensus (ijma‘) of the Ummah that women have not been prophets. Rather, what is meant here are those virtues that are specific to women.

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Sayyidah Aisha (radi Allahu anha) was distinguished from other women by comparing her to tharid.

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Tharid is the food that is made by mixing bread and broth.
Its excellence lies in the fact that it is nutritious, delicious, strengthening, easy to chew, and easily digestible. Sayyidah Aisha (radi Allahu anha) was also distinguished from other women in good character, sweet speech, eloquence and clarity, and soundness of opinion, and she understood matters that other women could not comprehend.
She would answer questions in such a manner that even many other Companions (radi Allahu anhum) could not provide such answers.

Hadith Commentary:
The Jews, may Allah protect us, refer to Maryam (alayha as-salam) with vile words.
The Noble Qur'an has referred to her with the word "Siddiqah" (the truthful one), and this hadith has been narrated regarding her virtue.
Similarly, the phrase in the Gospel of John, chapter 16, is fulfilled only in the Noble Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam): "He will glorify me."
The status of Asiyah, the wife of Pharaoh, is also extremely perfect, and what can be said of the lofty rank of Aishah (radi Allahu anha).

Hadith Commentary:
From this hadith, the superiority and excellence of tharid is established. In fact, in one narration, the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) supplicated for blessing in the pre-dawn meal (suhur) and in tharid, but there is some weakness in its chain of narration.
(Musnad Ahmad: 2/283)
It is mentioned in Tabarani that the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said:
“There are three things in which there is much blessing:
First, in collectiveness (gathering together), second, in eating the pre-dawn meal (suhur), and third, in tharid.”
(al-Mu’jam al-Kabir by Tabarani: 6/63, Hadith: 6004, and al-Sahihah by al-Albani, Hadith: 1045)

Hadith Commentary:
Vocabulary of the Hadith:
Thareed:
Bread soaked in broth,
which, due to being very delicious,
pleasant in taste,
easy to digest, and filling, is nourishing.

Benefits and Issues:
Among your wives,
in terms of sharing your sorrows,
well-wishing, and financial cooperation and self-sacrifice, the most virtuous and superior is Khadijah radi Allahu anha, and she alone attained the honor of long companionship and love.
However, in terms of knowledge and excellence, propagation and dissemination of religion, and participation in your mission and teachings, the most virtuous is Aisha radi Allahu anha.
Just as among your daughters,
the grief of your death had to be borne by your beloved daughter Fatimah radi Allahu anha, and the sorrow of the other daughters you had to bear yourself,
in this way, in terms of being your beloved child—that is, in terms of honor and relation—she is distinguished and superior to all other women.

Explanation:
1:
Thus, among men there have been prophets (anbiya), messengers (rusul), scholars (ulama), caliphs (khulafa), and saints (awliya).

2:
Tharid: This refers to a dish in which bread is mixed with meat and broth.