Hadith 125

(The book) ‘Al Ikhtisas’ – Muhammad Bin Ali Bin Shazan, from Ahmad Bin Yahya Al Nahwy Abu Al Abbas sa’alab, from Ahmad Bin Sahl, from Yahya Bin Muhammad Bin Is’haq Bin Musa, from Ahmad Bin Quteyba, from Abdul Hakam Al Quteybi, from Abu Kabasah and Yazeed Bin Rowman who both said, ‘When Ayesha determined upon the going out to Al-Basra, she came to Umm Salama-ra, and she-ra was at Makkah. She said, ‘O daughter of Abu Umayya! You-ra were the eldest of the mothers of the believers, and Rasool-Allah-saww used to stay in your-ra house, and he-saww apportion for us in your-ra house, and the Revelation used to come in your-ra house’. She-ra said, ‘O daughter of Abu Bakr! You have visited me, and you never used to visit me, and you are saying these words for a matter’. She said, ‘My son and a son of my brother have informed me that the man (Usman) was killed as an oppressed, and that there are one hundred thousand obedient swords at Al-Basra. Is it for you-ra that I and you-ra should go out, perhaps Allah-azwj would Reconcile between the two quarrelling groups? ’
She-ra said, ‘O daughter of Abu Bakr! Is it the blood of Usman you are seeking? You used to be the severest of the people against him, and you were calling for the disavowing (from Usman), or is it the command of the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws you are (trying to) break? The Emigrants and the Helpers have pledged allegiance to him-asws. You are a threshold between Rasool-Allah-saww and his-saww community, and his-saww veil struck upon his-saww sanctity, and the Quran has been collected under you, so do not go out and hold your nerve and do not make a public spectacle of it. Allah-azwj is behind this community. Rasool-Allah-saww had known your place, and if he-saww had wanted to pact to you, would have done so. Rasool-Allah-saww had forbidden you from the activity in the city. The pillars of cannot be straightened by the women if they are leaning, nor can these be filled if they crack. Praise-worthiness of the women is to lower the eyes, and be of less joking, and I-ra would not be saying, if Rasool-Allah-saww had exposed you in one of the deserts, and you should avoid being taken from one watering place to another. Your difficulties are in the Eyes of Allah-azwj and you will be returning to Rasool-Allah-saww, and you are steering its course and neglecting his-saww pacts. I-ra swear by Allah-azwj! If I-ra were to travel this journey of yours, then it is said to me-ra, ‘Ent