Musnad Ahmad

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to pray in the chamber and I would be in the room. The Prophet (peace be upon him) would make salam between the two rak'ahs and witr, "whose voice we used to hear," and would join (the prayers).

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Take upon yourselves only as many deeds as you are able to bear, for Allah will not tire, but you will surely tire. And it was the practice of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that whenever he started a prayer, he would remain steadfast upon it, and the most beloved deed to the Prophet (peace be upon him) was that which was done consistently.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once Hazrat Siddiq Akbar came to her place and there were two girls playing the duff. Hazrat Siddiq Akbar scolded them, so the Prophet (peace be upon him) said to him, "Leave them, for every nation has a festival." Hazrat Aisha further says that once on the day of Eid, some Abyssinians were performing acrobatics in front of the Prophet (peace be upon him). I placed my head on the shoulder of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and started watching them by peeking, so the Prophet (peace be upon him) lowered his shoulder for me. I kept watching them, and when I was satisfied, I returned. Now you can imagine for yourself how much a young girl is attracted to play and amusement.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that I did not see the Prophet (peace be upon him) fasting in any month as much as I saw him fasting in Sha'ban. The Prophet (peace be upon him) would fast almost the entire month.

It is narrated from Salim Sudusi that once Abdur Rahman performed ablution at the place of Aisha, so she said, "Abdur Rahman! Perform ablution properly and completely, because I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him) say: 'Woe to the heels from the fire of Hell.'"

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once the Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned his intention to observe i'tikaf in the last ten days of Ramadan. Hazrat Aisha asked him for permission to observe i'tikaf, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) granted her permission. So Hazrat Aisha ordered her tent to be set up, and it was set up. Seeing this, Hazrat Hafsa said to Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) to seek permission from the Prophet (peace be upon him) for her as well. She obtained permission, and upon Hazrat Hafsa's instruction, her tent was also set up. Seeing this, Hazrat Zainab also ordered her tent to be set up. Since the Prophet (peace be upon him) would return after offering prayer, that day when he saw many tents in the mosque, he asked, "What is this?" People informed him that these are the tents of Hazrat Aisha, Hafsa, and Zainab. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Do you seek righteousness by this?" I am not observing i'tikaf." So the Prophet (peace be upon him) returned, and after Eid, he observed i'tikaf for ten days in Shawwal.

Abdullah bin Abi Qais, who was the freed slave of Ghataif bin Afif, narrates that once he went to Umm al-Mu'mineen Hazrat Aisha and greeted her with salam. She asked, "Who is this man?" He replied, "I am Abdullah, the slave of Ghataif." She asked, "The one whose father's name is Afif?" He replied, "Yes, O Mother of the Believers!" Then he asked Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) about the two rak'ahs after Asr, whether the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to perform them. She replied, "Yes!" He asked about the children of the disbelievers, so Hazrat Aisha replied that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "They will be with their forefathers." Although I had also asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Even without any deeds?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, "Allah knows best what they would have done."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Nothing breaks a Muslim's prayer except a donkey, a disbeliever, a dog, and a woman. Hazrat Aisha said: O Messenger of Allah! We have been grouped with impure animals.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Misfortune is the name of bad character.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said that one of her mukatab slaves came to her to pay the remaining amount of his contract of manumission. She said to him, "After today, you will not be able to come to me, but you must make jihad in the way of Allah obligatory upon yourself, because I heard the Prophet (peace be upon him) say: 'If the dust of jihad in the way of Allah mixes with the heart of any Muslim man, Allah makes the fire of Hell forbidden for him.'"

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that whenever the Prophet (peace be upon him) was given a choice between two things in Islam, he (peace be upon him) would choose the easier of the two.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to perform two short rak'ahs after the mu'adhdhin gave the adhan, then he would lie down on his right side until the mu'adhdhin would come and inform the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the prayer.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) never performed the Duha prayer, neither during travel nor at home.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once on the day of Eid, some Abyssinians were performing acrobatics in front of the Prophet (peace be upon him). I placed my head on the shoulder of the Prophet (peace be upon him) from my chamber and started watching them by peeking out. The Prophet (peace be upon him) lowered his shoulder for me, and I kept watching them. When I was satisfied, I returned. Now you can imagine how much a young girl would be inclined towards play and amusement?

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Allah Almighty loves gentleness in every matter.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to perform the Asr prayer at a time when the sunlight would be shining in my room.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that when the Prophet (peace be upon him) intended to sleep, he would perform ablution as he did for prayer.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once I hung a curtain on the door of my house which had some pictures on it. When the Prophet (peace be upon him) came to my house and saw it, he tore the curtain with his own hand and said: "On the Day of Resurrection, the people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah Almighty are those who try to imitate the creation of Allah."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that I used to braid the collars of the sacrificial animals of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with my own hands, then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would not keep away from anything nor would he abandon anything. We used to think that a person comes out of the state of Ihram only after performing the Tawaf of the House of Allah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that after the Tawaf al-Ziyarah, Hazrat Safiyyah began her menstruation. This was mentioned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Will this prevent us?" I said, "She began her menstruation after the Tawaf al-Ziyarah." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Then she should depart," and he set out.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that by Allah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) never performed the Duha prayer, but I do perform this prayer. She also said that sometimes the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would abandon a deed despite loving it, only because he feared that people might start acting upon it and as a result, it would become obligatory upon them (and then they might not be able to do it, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) preferred that there be ease in the obligations upon the people).

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said to me during his illness of death to spend the gold that was with us. After recovering, the Prophet (peace be upon him) asked, "O Aisha! What happened to that gold?" She brought some gold coins, numbering between seven and nine. The Prophet (peace be upon him) began turning them over in his hand and said, "With what expectation will Muhammad (peace be upon him) meet Allah while these gold coins are still with him? Spend them."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that sometimes several months would pass in such a way that no fire would be lit in any of the houses of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Urwah says that I asked, "Aunt! Then how did you all manage?" She replied, "On two black things: dates and water."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that sometimes when the Prophet (peace be upon him) would pray at night, I would be lying between him and the Qiblah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once I hung a curtain on the door of my house, which had some pictures on it. The Prophet (peace be upon him) came to my house and upon seeing it, the Prophet (peace be upon him) tore the curtain with his own hand and said: The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah on the Day of Resurrection are those who try to imitate the creation of Allah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to observe i'tikaf and would extend his head out from the mosque, and I would wash it while I was in my room, and the entire body of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would be inside the mosque.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once the Prophet (peace be upon him) came to me at the place of "Sarif." At that time, my menstruation had started and I was sitting with my head lowered. The Prophet (peace be upon him) saw me and said, "Have your days (of menstruation) started?" I replied, "Yes, O Messenger of Allah! And I think that women have been created only for evil." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "There is nothing like that; rather, this is a thing in which all the women of the children of Adam are afflicted."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once the Prophet (peace be upon him) sent for Hazrat Usman Ghani. When he came, the Prophet (peace be upon him) turned towards him, and at the end of the conversation, the Prophet (peace be upon him) placed his hand on Hazrat Usman's shoulder and said, "Usman! Soon Allah Almighty will clothe you with a shirt. If the hypocrites want to take it off, do not take it off until you meet me." This sentence was repeated three times. Hazrat Nu'man says that I asked her, "O Mother of the Believers! Why have you not mentioned this until now?" She replied, "By Allah, I had forgotten this matter; I did not remember it." He says that then I narrated this tradition to Hazrat Amir Muawiyah, but he was not satisfied with just my narration; rather, he wrote a letter to the Mother of the Believers, asking her to write it and send it to him. Accordingly, she wrote that hadith in a letter and sent it to Hazrat Muawiyah.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) drank water while standing and also while sitting, walked barefoot and also wearing shoes, and returned from the right side as well as from the left side.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) declared the lizard as "fawasiq" (harmful), but I did not hear him giving the order to kill the lizard.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Five things are among the "fawasiq" which may be killed in the Haram: the scorpion, the kite, the mouse, the rabid dog, and the crow.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once some people asked the Prophet (peace be upon him) about "soothsayers." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "They have no reality." The people said, "O Messenger of Allah! Sometimes what they say turns out to be true?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "The statement that turns out to be true is something that a jinn snatches by overhearing from the angels, then he conveys it into the ear of his companion like the sound of a rooster, and then the soothsayer mixes more than a hundred lies with it and narrates it further."

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that once during the Prophethood, there was a solar eclipse. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) reached the prayer place and began to pray, standing for a long time, then he bowed (ruku) and performed a long bowing, then before going into prostration (sajdah), he raised his head and stood for a long time, though this standing was shorter than the first one. Then he bowed again and performed a long bowing, though this bowing was shorter than the first one. Then he prostrated. Then he stood up for the second rak'ah and did the same as he had done in the first rak'ah, except that in this rak'ah, the first standing was longer than the second, and the first bowing was longer than the second. In this way, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) completed the prayer, and by then the solar eclipse had ended. Then he said: The sun and the moon are two signs among the signs of Allah; they do not eclipse because of anyone's life or death. Therefore, when this happens, immediately turn towards prayer.

Narrated from Aisha that once a woman came to her, and with her were her two daughters. She (Aisha) gave the woman a date. The woman broke the date into two pieces and distributed them between her two daughters (and did not eat anything herself). Aisha mentioned this incident to the Prophet (peace be upon him), so the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: Whoever is tested with these daughters and treats them well, they will become a shield for him from Hell.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whenever a Muslim is afflicted with a thorn prick or any hardship even less than that, Allah Almighty expiates his sins in return for it.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) once said to me, "Aisha! Hazrat Jibreel (peace be upon him) is conveying greetings of peace to you." She replied, "And upon him be peace and the mercy of Allah." And she said that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to see things which we could not see.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that once the other noble wives of the Prophet (peace be upon him) sent Hazrat Fatima to the Prophet (peace be upon him). She sought permission to enter the house, at that time the Prophet (peace be upon him) was with Hazrat Aisha under her sheet. The Prophet (peace be upon him) granted Hazrat Fatima permission to enter. She came in and said, "O Messenger of Allah! Your noble wives have sent me to you, they request justice from you regarding the daughter of Abu Quhafah." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Beloved daughter! Will you not love whom I love?" She replied, "Why not." The Prophet (peace be upon him) said regarding Hazrat Aisha, "Then love her as well." Hearing this, Hazrat Fatima stood up and left, and informed the noble wives about the conversation that took place between her and the Prophet (peace be upon him). Upon hearing this, they said, "You could not do anything for us. Go to the Prophet (peace be upon him) again." But Hazrat Fatima said, "By Allah, now I will not speak to him about this matter again." Then the noble wives sent Hazrat Zainab bint Jahsh. She sought permission, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) granted her permission as well. When she entered, she also said, "O Messenger of Allah! Your noble wives have sent me to you, they request justice from you regarding the daughter of Abu Quhafah." Hazrat Aisha says that after this, she (Zainab) started attacking me (with taunts). I kept looking at the Prophet (peace be upon him) to see if he would permit me to respond. When I realized that if I responded to her, the Prophet (peace be upon him) would not mind, then I started responding to Zainab and did not leave her until I silenced her. The Prophet (peace be upon him) kept smiling during this, then said, "She too is the daughter of Abu Bakr."

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to pray eleven rak'ahs between Isha and Fajr, saying salam after every two rak'ahs and performing one rak'ah of Witr. In the nawafil, he would perform such a long prostration that before he raised his head, any one of you could recite fifty verses. When the muezzin would come and inform the Prophet (peace be upon him) about the prayer.

It is narrated from Hazrat Aisha that the Prophet (peace be upon him) used to supplicate in prayer: "O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, from the Antichrist (Maseeh Dajjal), and from the trials of life and death. O Allah! I seek refuge in You from sins and from debt." Once someone asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Why do you seek refuge from debt so frequently?" The Prophet (peace be upon him) replied, "When a person is afflicted by debt (and is indebted), he lies when he speaks and breaks his promises when he makes them."