Musnad of Aishah

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the use of dried gourd shells (dubba'), green earthenware jars (hantam), and vessels coated with pitch or tar (muzaffat).

Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "My mother (before I was sent to the Prophet's house) used to treat me (with various remedies) for my health and to gain weight, so that she could send me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). But none of her efforts succeeded until I ate fresh dates together with cucumber; then (by eating them) I became healthy and plump in the finest way."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "War is in fact a matter of stratagem and planning."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "Ask Allah for everything, even for a sandal strap; for indeed, if Allah Almighty does not make something easy to attain, it will never become available."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked, during the Battle of Tabuk, about the sutrah (barrier) of the one praying, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(It should be) equal to the height of the back post of a camel saddle."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The imam is a guarantor (responsible for the soundness and care of the prayer), and the mu'adhdhin is one entrusted (with the times of prayer). So may Allah Almighty guide the imams aright and pardon the mu'adhdhins."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah, the Mother of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with her), that she said: "Sometimes the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would come to us and ask: 'Do you have anything (to eat)?' We would say: 'No.' Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would say: 'Then I am fasting (a voluntary fast).'" Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "Once he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us, and we said: 'We have been given hays (a sweet made of dates and ghee) as a gift, and we have kept some of it aside for you.' He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Bring it; I was fasting (but now I will eat it).'" Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) ate it."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Night and day will not come to an end until al-Lat and al-Uzza are worshipped (again)." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I said: O Messenger of Allah! I used to think that when Allah Almighty revealed this blessed verse: "It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over all religions, however much the polytheists may dislike it," it meant that this dominance was now complete and lasting. At this the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(This dominance of the religion) will remain as long as Allah wills. Then Allah Almighty will send a most pure wind, which will take the soul of everyone who has in his heart goodness equal to a mustard seed, and only those (worst) people in whom there is no good will remain, and they will return to the religion of their (disbelieving) forefathers."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "One night I did not find the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the bed, so I searched for him (peace and blessings be upon him) by feeling about. My hand fell upon his (peace and blessings be upon him) two blessed feet, which were upright (in the state of prostration), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was making this supplication: 'Allahumma inni a'udhu bi-mu'afatika min 'uqubatika, wa a'udhu bi-ridaka min sakhatika, wa a'udhu bika minka, la uhsi thana'an 'alayka, anta kama athnayta 'ala nafsika' (O Allah, I seek refuge in Your pardon from Your punishment, and I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your displeasure, and I seek refuge in You from You. I cannot fully enumerate Your praise; You are as You have praised Yourself)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three things upon which I swear: Allah Almighty will not make the one who has a share in Islam like the one who has no share (in Islam), and the shares of Islam are three: fasting, prayer and charity; Allah Almighty will not hand over to anyone else on the Day of Resurrection a servant whose patron and protector He has become; and no man loves a people except that Allah will bring him with them on the Day of Resurrection. And there is a fourth thing such that, if I were to swear upon it, I would not fear committing a sin: whichever servant of His Allah Almighty conceals in this world, He will also conceal him in the Hereafter." Then Umar bin Abdul Aziz (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "When you hear a hadith like this from a scholar of high standing like Urwah (may Allah have mercy on him), then preserve it (by committing it to memory)."

Ishaq (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Abdullah bin Utbah bin Mas'ud (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated to me, through Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), a hadith of the same meaning.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not lawful for a Muslim to cut off relations with his brother for more than three days."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The miswak is a means of purifying the mouth and a cause of the Lord's pleasure, and in the black seed there is a cure for every disease except 'sam'." I asked: What is 'sam'? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Death."

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that she heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "In a state of ighlaq (constraint, i.e. when the mind and awareness are overpowered by extreme anger, intoxication or coercion), neither does divorce take effect, nor is the freeing of a slave valid." (This hadith was narrated by Safiyyah bint Shaybah (may Allah have mercy on her) from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her).)

It is narrated from al-Qasim bin Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) that he said: I went to the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and said: Dear mother! Uncover for me the graves of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his two companions. So she showed (me) three low graves, covered with the red pebbles of the courtyard. The grave of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was in front; the head of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was opposite the space between his (peace and blessings be upon him) two shoulders, and the head of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was opposite his (peace and blessings be upon him) feet.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was migrating from Makkah to Madinah, there was no one with him (peace and blessings be upon him) besides Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Amir bin Fuhayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) except a polytheist man from Banu al-Dil, who was their guide (to show them the way)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah and Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that they were asked: "Which deed was most beloved to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" They both said: "The deed that its doer keeps up constantly and regularly, even if it is little."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me, and I became afraid (with the worry) that perhaps some command (of separation) had been given concerning me. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me the choice (to choose either Allah, His Messenger and the Hereafter, or the goods of this world). I asked: Have you mentioned this to anyone else before me? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'No.' I said: 'Then I have chosen you.' And he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave all his wives the choice, and they all chose him (peace and blessings be upon him), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not count it as anything (in terms of divorce)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the ruling that the benefit or income obtained (from a thing) is in return for the liability for it (i.e. bearing the responsibility for its loss or destruction)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) embrace Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and kiss him, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying: 'May my father be ransomed for this lone martyr! May my father be ransomed for this lone martyr!'"

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "When I wanted to part the hair of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I would part it from the middle (crown) of his head, and I would let the front locks of his (peace and blessings be upon him) hair fall back between his two blessed shoulders."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that when this noble verse was revealed: "And leave Me (O Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)) with these deniers, the people of wealth, and give them a little respite" [al-Muzzammil: 11], she (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "After that only a short time had passed before the Battle of Badr took place."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from al-Baqi' and came in to me. At that time I was feeling a severe pain in my head and was saying: "Oh, my head!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Aishah! By Allah, (from the severity of the pain) I too am saying: Oh, my head!" Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What harm would it do you if you died before me, and then I prepared and shrouded you, prayed the funeral prayer over you and buried you?" I said: By Allah! I think that if you did that, then after burying me you would come straight back to my house and be occupied with another of your wives. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) smiled on hearing this. Then his (peace and blessings be upon him) pain kept increasing until the illness became severe, while he was in the house of Sayyidah Maymunah (may Allah be pleased with her). He (peace and blessings be upon him) called his pure wives and asked their permission for him to spend the days of his illness in my house, and they gave him permission. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out, supported between two men of his household, one of whom was Sayyiduna al-Fadl bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), and the other was another man. Because of weakness his (peace and blessings be upon him) feet were making lines on the ground, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) had a band tied around his blessed head, until he came to my house. Ubaydullah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I narrated this hadith to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), and he asked: Do you know who that other man was? I said: No. He said: It was Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him). Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) fainted and his pain grew more severe. When he recovered, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Pour over me seven water-skins of water from different wells, so that I may go out to the people and give them my instructions." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: We seated him (peace and blessings be upon him) in a basin (tub) belonging to Sayyidah Hafsah bint Umar (may Allah be pleased with her) and poured water over him, until he (peace and blessings be upon him) began to gesture with his hand: "Enough, enough." Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Then he (peace and blessings be upon him), as Ayyub bin Bashir (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated to me, came out with a band tied around his head and sat on the pulpit. The first thing he (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke of was that he (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed for the martyrs of Uhud and sought forgiveness for them abundantly. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty gave one of the servants of Allah the choice between this world and what is with Him, and he chose what is with Allah." He said: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) understood this and began to weep; he knew that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) meant himself. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abu Bakr, take it easy. Look, all of you: close all these doors that open into the mosque, except the door of the house of Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him), for I do not know anyone among my companions more excellent in companionship and fellowship than Abu Bakr."

It is narrated from Mu'adhah (may Allah have mercy on her) that a woman asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) about the continuous fasting (wisal, fasting day after day without breaking the fast) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). She said: "Can you do deeds like those the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did? Whereas all his (peace and blessings be upon him) past and future sins had been forgiven, and his (peace and blessings be upon him) deeds were merely voluntary (extra)?" Then Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "As for me, by Allah, I have never fasted into the night (doing wisal), because Allah Almighty says: 'Then complete the fast until the night.'"

It is narrated from Mu'adhah (may Allah have mercy on her) that a woman asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): "Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) fast three days of every month?" She replied: "Yes." I (i.e. Mu'adhah) asked: "On which days of the month did he (peace and blessings be upon him) fast?" Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "He (peace and blessings be upon him) did not mind on which days of the month he fasted."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that "the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was wrapped in a striped Yemeni cloak (hibarah), then it was removed from his (peace and blessings be upon him) pure body." Al-Qasim bin Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Indeed, the remnants of that cloak are (still) preserved with us (today)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not permissible for a Muslim to cut off relations with a Muslim brother of his for more than three days. Then, when he meets him and greets him with salam three times, and each time that person does not return the greeting, then he (the one who does not reply) has certainly returned bearing the burden of his own sin along with the sin of the (one who greeted)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "The last words of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) were a phrase I heard from him (peace and blessings be upon him) while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying: 'Rather, (I seek) the companionship of the Highest Companion of Paradise.'" Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "Then I said (to myself): In that case, by Allah, he (peace and blessings be upon him) will not choose us (to remain with us), and I understood what he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to tell us: 'No prophet of Allah has his soul taken until he is given the choice (between remaining in this world and meeting the Highest Companion).'"

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from the mosque, and on that day, when he (peace and blessings be upon him) entered the house from the mosque, he lay down in my room. Meanwhile, a man from the family of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came in to me with a fresh green miswak in his hand. Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) looked at the miswak in that man's hand in such a way that I knew he (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to use it. So I said: "O Messenger of Allah! Would you like me to give you this miswak?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." So I took the miswak and chewed it with my teeth until I had softened it, and then gave it to him (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: He (peace and blessings be upon him) cleaned his teeth with it in such a fine manner that I had never before seen him (peace and blessings be upon him) use a miswak so well. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) put it down, and I felt the weight of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) growing heavier in my lap. I began to look at his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessed face, and his (peace and blessings be upon him) eyes were fixed upwards, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was saying: "Rather, (I choose) the Highest Companion of Paradise (Allah Almighty)." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I said (in my heart): "You (peace and blessings be upon him) were given the choice (between remaining and meeting Him), and you (peace and blessings be upon him) chose (the Hereafter), by the One who sent you (peace and blessings be upon him) with the truth!" And then the blessed soul of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was taken.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away between my chest and my throat, and in my own house, in which I wronged no one. It was out of my foolishness and young age that the soul of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was taken while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was in my lap; then I placed his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessed head on a pillow and began, together with the other women, to beat my chest and strike my face."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her).

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "The verse of stoning (rajm) and of suckling an adult ten times was revealed, and it was written on a sheet kept safe under my bed. Then, when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away and we were occupied with the grief of his (peace and blessings be upon him) death and other matters, a domestic animal came into the house and ate that sheet."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Every human being among the children of Adam has been created with three hundred and sixty joints. So whoever praises Allah by saying 'Alhamdu lillah' (All praise is for Allah), declares His Oneness by saying 'La ilaha illallah' (There is no god worthy of worship except Allah), seeks His forgiveness by saying 'Astaghfirullah' (I seek Allah's forgiveness), praises and extols Allah, removes a thorn from the path of the Muslims, or removes a stone from the passageway of the Muslims, enjoins good and forbids evil, and the total number of these good deeds equals those three hundred and sixty joints, then on that day that person has been removed far from the Fire of Hell, and he has, or he said, saved himself from the Fire."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril (peace be upon him) kept on enjoining and urging me so much about (the rights of) the neighbour that I began to think he would make him an heir (in the inheritance)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to have a pulpit placed in the mosque for Sayyiduna Hassan bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), on which he would stand and defend the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (with his poetry), and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would say: 'Indeed, Allah Almighty supports Hassan with the Holy Spirit (Jibril, peace be upon him) as long as he answers (the opponents) on behalf of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).'"

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The two prostrations of forgetfulness (sajdatay al-sahw) suffice to make up for every kind of addition or omission that occurs in the prayer."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: "Once I did not find the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (in the house), so I went out looking for him (peace and blessings be upon him). I saw that he (peace and blessings be upon him) had come to al-Baqi' (graveyard), and there he (peace and blessings be upon him) said these words: 'Assalamu 'alaykum dara qawmin mu'minin, antum lana faratun, wa inna bikum lahiqun. Allahumma la tahrimna ajrahum wa la taftinna ba'dahum' (Peace be upon you, O abode of a believing people! You have gone ahead of us, and we will surely join you. O Allah, do not deprive us of their reward, and do not put us to trial after them)."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever introduces into this matter of our religion something that is not part of it, that deed is rejected."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): "When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to sleep while in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah), he would not sleep until he had performed ablution (wudu); and when he (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to eat something, he would wash both his hands and then eat."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah, the Mother of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with her), that she said: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would come to us and ask: "Do you have anything (to eat)?" We would say: "No." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would say: "Then I am fasting." She further said: One day he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to us and asked: "Do you have anything?" I said: "Yes, we have been given 'hays' (a dish made of dates and ghee) as a gift." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I began this morning fasting." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) called for that food and ate it.