Hadith 83

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported from Ibn Awrama who said, ‘A woman with me carried something from the jewellery, and something from the Dirhams, and something from the garments. She imagined that all of it was for her, and I did not ask her if there was something in it for someone else. I carried to Al-Medina with some merchandise for our companions. I diverted that, all of it to him, and wrote in the letter, ‘I am sending to you from the direction of so and so woman with such and such, and from the direction of so and so man with such and such’. There came out in a letter, ‘There has arrived what you had sent from the direction of so and so man, and from the direction of the two women. May Allah-azwj Accept from you and may Allah-azwj be Pleased with you and Make you to be with us-asws in the world and the Hereafter’. When I heard the mention of the two women, I doubted in the letter that it might be other than his-asws letter, and he-asws had worked upon me besides it, because I was in certainty within myself that which the woman had handed to me, all of it was hers and she is one woman. When I saw (written) ‘two women’, I accused the carrier of my letter. When I left to go to the city, the woman came to me. She said, ‘Did you deliver my goods? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. She said, ‘And the goods of so and so woman? ’ I said, ‘Was there something in it of someone else? ’ She said, ‘Yes. For me in it was such and such, and for my so and so sister was such and such’. I said, ‘Yes, I have delivered’’. [88]