صحيح البخاري 2661

Narrated Aisha:(the wife of the Prophet) "Whenever Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) intended to go on a journey, he would draw lots amongst his wives and would take with him the one upon whom the lot fell. During a Ghazwa of his, he drew lots amongst us and the lot fell upon me, and I proceeded with him after Allah had decreed the use of the veil by women. I was carried in a Howdah (on the camel) and dismounted while still in it. When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was through with his Ghazwa and returned home, and we approached the city of Medina, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ordered us to proceed at night. When the order of setting off was given, I walked till I was past the army to answer the call of nature. After finishing I returned (to the camp) to depart (with the others) and suddenly realized that my necklace over my chest was missing. So, I returned to look for it and was delayed because of that. The people who used to carry me on the camel, came to my Howdah and put it on the back of the camel, thinking that I was in it, as, at that time, women were light in weight, and thin and lean, and did not use to eat much. So, those people did not feel the difference in the heaviness of the Howdah while lifting it, and they put it over the camel. At that time I was a young lady. They set the camel moving and proceeded on. I found my necklace after the army had gone, and came to their camp to find nobody. So, I went to the place where I used to stay, thinking that they would discover my absence and come back in my search. While in that state, I felt sleepy and slept. Safwan bin Mu'attal As-Sulami Adh-Dhakwani was behind the army and reached my abode in the morning. When he saw a sleeping person, he came to me, and he used to see me before veiling. So, I got up when I heard him saying, "Inna lil-lah-wa inn a ilaihi rajiun (We are for Allah, and we will return to Him)." He made his camel kneel down. He got down from his camel, and put his leg on the front legs of the camel and then I rode and sat over it. Safwan set out walking, leading the camel by the rope till we reached the army who had halted to take rest at midday. Then whoever was meant for destruction, fell into destruction, (some people accused me falsely) and the leader of the false accusers was `Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. After that we returned to Medina, and I became ill for one month while the people were spreading the forged statements of the false accusers. I was feeling during my ailment as if I were not receiving the usual kindness from the Prophet (ﷺ) which I used to receive from him when I got sick. But he would come, greet and say, 'How is that (girl)?' I did not know anything of what was going on till I recovered from my ailment and went out with Um Mistah to the Manasi where we used to answer the call of nature, and we used not to go to answer the call of nature except from night to night and that was before we had lavatories near to our houses. And this habit of ours was similar to the habit of the old 'Arabs in the open country (or away from houses). So. I and Um Mistah bint Ruhm went out walking. Um Mistah stumbled because of her long dress and on that she said, 'Let Mistah be ruined.' I said, 'You are saying a bad word. Why are you abusing a man who took part in (the battle of) Badr?' She said, 'O Hanata (you there) didn't you hear what they said?' Then she told me the rumors of the false accusers. My sickness was aggravated, and when I returned home, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came to me, and after greeting he said, 'How is that (girl)?' I requested him to allow me to go to my parents. I wanted then to be sure of the news through them. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) allowed me, and I went to my parents and asked my mother, 'What are the people talking about?' She said, 'O my daughter! Don't worry much about this matter. By Allah, never is there a charming woman loved by her husband who has other wives, but the women would forge false news about her.' I said, 'Glorified be Allah! Are the people really talking of this matter?' That night I kept on weeping and could not sleep till morning. In the morning Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) called `Ali bin Abu Talib and Usama bin Zaid when he saw the Divine Inspiration delayed, to consul them about divorcing his wife (i.e. `Aisha). Usama bin Zaid said what he knew of the good reputation of his wives and added, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Keep your wife, for, by Allah, we know nothing about her but good.' `Ali bin Abu Talib said, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Allah has not imposed restrictions on you, and there are many women other than she, yet you may ask the woman-servant who will tell you the truth.' On that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) called Barirah and said, 'O Barirah. Did you ever see anything which roused your suspicions about her?' Barirah said, 'No, by Allah Who has sent you with the Truth, I have never seen in her anything faulty except that she is a girl of immature age, who sometimes sleeps and leaves the dough for the goats to eat.' On that day Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ascended the pulpit and requested that somebody support him in punishing `Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. Allah's Apostle said, 'Who will support me to punish that person (`Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul) who has hurt me by slandering the reputation of my family? By Allah, I know nothing about my family but good, and they have accused a person about whom I know nothing except good, and he never entered my house except in my company.' Sa`d bin Mu`adh got up and said, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! by Allah, I will relieve you from him. If that man is from the tribe of the Aus, then we will chop his head off, and if he is from our brothers, the Khazraj, then order us, and we will fulfill your order.' On that Sa`d bin 'Ubada, the chief of the Khazraj and before this incident, he had been a pious man, got up, motivated by his zeal for his tribe and said, 'By Allah, you have told a lie; you cannot kill him, and you will never be able to kill him.' On that Usaid bin Al-Hudair got up and said (to Sa`d bin 'Ubada), 'By Allah! you are a liar. By Allah, we will kill him; and you are a hypocrite, defending the hypocrites.' On this the two tribes of Aus and Khazraj got excited and were about to fight each other, while Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was standing on the pulpit. He got down and quieted them till they became silent and he kept quiet. On that day I kept on weeping so much so that neither did my tears stop, nor could I sleep. In the morning my parents were with me and I had wept for two nights and a day, till I thought my liver would burst from weeping. While they were sitting with me and I was weeping, an Ansari woman asked my permission to enter, and I allowed her to come in. She sat down and started weeping with me. While we were in this state, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came and sat down and he had never sat with me since the day they forged the accusation. No revelation regarding my case came to him for a month. He recited Tashah-hud (i.e. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is His Apostle) and then said, 'O `Aisha! I have been informed such-and-such about you; if you are innocent, then Allah will soon reveal your innocence, and if you have committed a sin, then repent to Allah and ask Him to forgive you, for when a person confesses his sin and asks Allah for forgiveness, Allah accepts his repentance.' When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) finished his speech my tears ceased completely and there remained not even a single drop of it. I requested my father to reply to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on my behalf. My father said, By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).' I said to my mother, 'Talk to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) on my behalf.' She said, 'By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Apostle. I was a young girl and did not have much knowledge of the Qur'an. I said, 'I know, by Allah, that you have listened to what people are saying and that has been planted in your minds and you have taken it as a truth. Now, if I told you that I am innocent and Allah knows that I am innocent, you would not believe me and if I confessed to you falsely that I am guilty, and Allah knows that I am innocent you would believe me. By Allah, I don't compare my situation with you except to the situation of Joseph's father (i.e. Jacob) who said, 'So (for me) patience is most fitting against that which you assert and it is Allah (Alone) whose help can be sought.' Then I turned to the other side of my bed hoping that Allah would prove my innocence. By Allah I never thought that Allah would reveal Divine Inspiration in my case, as I considered myself too inferior to be talked of in the Holy Qur'an. I had hoped that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) might have a dream in which Allah would prove my innocence. By Allah, Allah's Apostle had not got up and nobody had left the house before the Divine Inspiration came to Allah's Apostle. So, there overtook him the same state which used to overtake him, (which he used to have on being inspired divinely). He was sweating so much so that the drops of the sweat were dropping like pearls though it was a (cold) wintry day. When that state of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was over, he was smiling and the first word he said, `Aisha! Thank Allah, for Allah has declared your innocence.' My mother told me to go to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) . I replied, 'By Allah I will not go to him and will not thank but Allah.' So Allah revealed: "Verily! They who spread the slander are a gang among you . . ." (24.11) When Allah gave the declaration of my Innocence, Abu Bakr, who used to provide for Mistah bin Uthatha for he was his relative, said, 'By Allah, I will never provide Mistah with anything because of what he said about Aisha.' But Allah later revealed: -- "And let not those who are good and wealthy among you swear not to help their kinsmen, those in need and those who left their homes in Allah's Cause. Let them forgive and overlook. Do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? Verily! Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful." (24.22) After that Abu Bakr said, 'Yes ! By Allah! I like that Allah should forgive me,' and resumed helping Mistah whom he used to help before. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) also asked Zainab bint Jahsh (i.e. the Prophet's wife about me saying, 'What do you know and what did you see?' She replied, 'O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I refrain to claim hearing or seeing what I have not heard or seen. By Allah, I know nothing except goodness about Aisha." Aisha further added "Zainab was competing with me (in her beauty and the Prophet's love), yet Allah protected her (from being malicious), for she had piety

Rapporté par Aisha (l’épouse du Prophète) : Chaque fois que le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) voulait partir en voyage, il tirait au sort entre ses épouses et emmenait avec lui celle sur qui le sort tombait. Lors d’une expédition, il a tiré au sort entre nous et le sort est tombé sur moi, alors je suis partie avec lui après qu’Allah ait prescrit le port du voile pour les femmes. J’étais transportée dans une litière sur le chameau et j’en descendais toujours à l’intérieur. Quand le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) a terminé son expédition et est rentré chez lui, et que nous approchions de Médine, il a ordonné que nous avancions de nuit. Quand l’ordre de partir a été donné, je suis allée plus loin que l’armée pour satisfaire un besoin naturel. Après avoir fini, je suis revenue pour repartir avec les autres et j’ai soudain remarqué que mon collier avait disparu. Je suis retournée le chercher et j’ai été retardée. Ceux qui portaient ma litière sont venus, l’ont posée sur le chameau en pensant que j’étais dedans, car à cette époque les femmes étaient légères et minces, elles ne mangeaient pas beaucoup. Ils n’ont donc pas remarqué la différence de poids et sont partis. J’étais alors une jeune fille. Après avoir retrouvé mon collier, je suis revenue au camp mais il n’y avait plus personne. Je suis donc restée à l’endroit où je campais, pensant qu’ils remarqueraient mon absence et reviendraient me chercher. Dans cet état, je me suis endormie. Safwan bin Mu’attal As-Sulami Adh-Dhakwani, qui était derrière l’armée, est arrivé à mon emplacement le matin. En voyant une personne endormie, il s’est approché de moi, car il m’avait déjà vue avant le port du voile. Je me suis réveillée en l’entendant dire : « Inna lil-lah wa inna ilayhi raji’un (Nous sommes à Allah et à Lui nous retournerons). » Il a fait agenouiller son chameau, est descendu, a mis sa jambe sur les pattes du chameau et je suis montée dessus. Safwan a marché en tenant la corde du chameau jusqu’à ce que nous rejoignions l’armée qui s’était arrêtée pour se reposer à midi. Ceux qui devaient tomber dans l’erreur y sont tombés (certains m’ont accusée à tort), et le chef des accusateurs était `Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. Après cela, nous sommes rentrés à Médine, et je suis tombée malade pendant un mois, alors que les gens répandaient les rumeurs des calomniateurs. Pendant ma maladie, je sentais que je ne recevais pas la même gentillesse du Prophète (ﷺ) que d’habitude quand j’étais malade. Il venait, me saluait et disait : « Comment va cette fille ? » Je ne savais rien de ce qui se passait jusqu’à ce que je guérisse et sorte avec Um Mistah pour aller aux toilettes, ce que nous ne faisions que la nuit, car il n’y avait pas encore de toilettes près de nos maisons. Cette habitude ressemblait à celle des anciens Arabes. Donc, Um Mistah bint Ruhm et moi sommes sorties à pied. Um Mistah a trébuché à cause de sa longue robe et a dit : « Que Mistah soit perdu ! » J’ai dit : « Tu dis un mauvais mot. Pourquoi insultes-tu un homme qui a participé à la bataille de Badr ? » Elle a répondu : « Ô Hanata, n’as-tu pas entendu ce qu’ils disent ? » Elle m’a alors raconté les rumeurs. Ma maladie s’est aggravée et, de retour à la maison, le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) est venu, m’a saluée et a demandé : « Comment va cette fille ? » J’ai demandé la permission d’aller chez mes parents pour vérifier la rumeur. Il m’a permis d’y aller et j’ai demandé à ma mère : « De quoi parlent les gens ? » Elle a dit : « Ma fille, ne t’inquiète pas trop. Par Allah, jamais une femme belle et aimée de son mari n’a d’autres épouses sans que les autres femmes inventent des histoires sur elle. » J’ai dit : « Gloire à Allah ! Les gens parlent-ils vraiment de cela ? » Cette nuit-là, j’ai pleuré sans m’arrêter jusqu’au matin. Le matin, mes parents étaient avec moi et j’avais pleuré deux nuits et un jour, au point de croire que mon foie allait éclater. Une femme des Ansar a demandé à entrer, je l’ai laissée entrer, elle s’est assise et a pleuré avec moi. Pendant ce temps, le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) est venu et s’est assis ; il ne s’était jamais assis avec moi depuis le début de l’accusation. Aucune révélation n’était venue à son sujet depuis un mois. Il a récité la Tashahhud puis a dit : « Ô `Aisha ! On m’a informé de telle et telle chose à ton sujet. Si tu es innocente, Allah révélera bientôt ton innocence. Si tu as commis une faute, repens-toi à Allah et demande-Lui pardon, car lorsqu’une personne avoue son péché et demande pardon à Allah, Allah accepte son repentir. » Quand il a fini, mes larmes se sont arrêtées d’un coup. J’ai demandé à mon père de répondre au Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) pour moi, il a dit : « Par Allah, je ne sais pas quoi dire au Messager d’Allah (ﷺ). » J’ai demandé à ma mère de lui parler, elle a dit : « Par Allah, je ne sais pas quoi dire au Messager d’Allah. » J’étais jeune et je ne connaissais pas beaucoup le Coran. J’ai dit : « Je sais, par Allah, que vous avez entendu ce que les gens disent et que vous l’avez cru. Si je vous dis que je suis innocente et qu’Allah sait que je le suis, vous ne me croirez pas. Si j’avoue alors qu’Allah sait que je suis innocente, vous me croirez. Par Allah, je ne compare ma situation qu’à celle du père de Joseph qui a dit : ‘La patience est la meilleure attitude face à ce que vous racontez, et c’est Allah dont l’aide doit être recherchée.’ » Je me suis alors tournée de l’autre côté du lit en espérant qu’Allah prouverait mon innocence. Par Allah, je n’ai jamais pensé qu’Allah révélerait une révélation à mon sujet, me considérant trop insignifiante pour être mentionnée dans le Coran. J’espérais seulement que le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) aurait un rêve où Allah prouverait mon innocence. Par Allah, le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) n’était pas encore levé et personne n’avait quitté la maison que la révélation est descendue sur lui. Il a été pris du même état que lors des révélations, transpirant abondamment même par temps froid. Quand cela s’est terminé, il souriait et a dit en premier : « `Aisha ! Remercie Allah, car Il a prouvé ton innocence. » Ma mère m’a dit d’aller voir le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ), mais j’ai répondu : « Par Allah, je ne remercierai que Allah. » Allah a alors révélé : « Ceux qui ont propagé la calomnie font partie d’un groupe parmi vous… » (24:11). Quand Allah a prouvé mon innocence, Abu Bakr, qui aidait Mistah bin Uthatha car il était de sa famille, a dit : « Par Allah, je ne l’aiderai plus à cause de ce qu’il a dit sur Aisha. » Mais Allah a révélé : « Que ceux qui sont bons et riches parmi vous ne jurent pas de ne plus aider leurs proches, les nécessiteux et ceux qui ont émigré pour Allah. Qu’ils pardonnent et oublient. N’aimez-vous pas qu’Allah vous pardonne ? Allah est Pardonneur et Miséricordieux. » (24:22) Après cela, Abu Bakr a dit : « Oui, par Allah, j’aime qu’Allah me pardonne », et il a repris son aide à Mistah. Le Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) a aussi interrogé Zainab bint Jahsh (l’épouse du Prophète) à mon sujet : « Qu’as-tu vu ou entendu ? » Elle a répondu : « Ô Messager d’Allah (ﷺ) ! Je préfère ne rien dire de ce que je n’ai pas vu ni entendu. Par Allah, je ne sais que du bien sur Aisha. » Aisha a ajouté : « Zainab était en compétition avec moi (pour la beauté et l’amour du Prophète), mais Allah l’a protégée (de la méchanceté), car elle était pieuse. »