Hadith 153

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Then she sat down, and two men from the Emigrants leapt to her – one of them was Talha and the other, Al-Zubeyr, and they dropped their cloth upon her (to claim her). She said, ‘What is the matter with you, O community of the Bedouins? Your Permissible women are absent and you are violating the Permissible women of others? ’
It was said to her, ‘Because you are saying, ‘We will neither pray Salat, nor Fast, nor give Zakat’? ’ The two men – those who had dropped their cloth upon her, said to her, ‘We will inflate regarding your price’. She said, ‘I swear by Allah-azwj and by Muhammad-saww Rasool-Allah-saww, no one will own me and seize my neck except one who informs me with what my mother saw while she was pregnant with me? And which thing she said to me at my birth. And what is the sign which is between me and her? Or else I shall slit my belly with my own hands and price would be gone, and my blood would be sought’. She said, ‘The one who will own me, he is more knowing with the dream than I am’. Talha and Al-Zubeyr grabbed their two cloths and sat down. Amir Al-Momineen-asws entered and said: ‘What is this disturbance in the Masjid of Rasool-Allah-saww? ’ They said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! A Hanafiite woman has prohibited her price unto the Muslims and she says, ‘One who informs me with the dream which my mother saw while she was pregnant with me, can own me’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Her claim is not false. Inform her, you can own her’. They said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan-asws! There is no one from us who knows. Don’t you know that the son-saww of your-asws uncle-as Rasool-Allah-saww has passed away and the news of the sky have been terminated from after him-saww’. Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Can I-asws inform her without any objections from you? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. He-asws said: ‘O Hanafiite! Can I-asws inform you and own you? ’ She said, ‘Who are you-asws, O you daring one, besides his companions? ’ He-asws said: ‘I-asws am Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws’. She said, ‘Perhaps you-asws are the man whom Rasool-Allah-saww nominated for us-asws among companions on the day of Friday at Ghadeer Khum, as a flag for the people? ’ He-asws said: ‘I-asws am that man’. She said, ‘From your (Muslims) reason we were looted, and from your direction were come to, because our men said, ‘We will not submit the charities of our wealth, nor be obedient except to the one whom Muhammad-saww nominated among us and among y