Hadith 110

sed over the river of Al-Hawaab’. She said, ‘Is there anyone to testify? ’ They fabricated for her, fifty Bedouins, making something to be for them, and they swore that this isn’t the river of Al-Hawaab. She travelled on to her direction. And when they ended to a pit of Abu Musa near from Al-Basra, Usman Bin Huneyf sent a message to the people, and on that day he was an office bearer of Ali-asws upon Al-Basra, sending Abu Al-Aswad Al-Daoul to know their information. He came until he entered to see Ayesha, and he asked her about her journey. She said, ‘I seek the blood of Usman’. He said, ‘Surely there isn’t anyone in Al-Basra who had killed Usman’. She said, ‘You speak the truth, but they were with Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws at Al-Medina, and I have come revive the people of Al-Basra to fight against him-asws. Did we not angered for you all from the whip of Usman, and we should not get angered for Usman from your swords? ’
He said to her, ‘You are not from the whip and the sword, but rather you are a wife of Rasool-Allah-saww. He-saww had ordered you to dwell in your house and recite the Book of your Lord-azwj. Fighting isn’t upon the women nor is it for them to seek the bloods, and Ali-asws is foremost with Usman than you are and of closer relationship, for they are both sons of Abd Manaf’. She said, ‘I will not be leaving until I accomplish what I have proceeded for. Are you thinking, O Abu Al-Aswad, that anyone would come forward to fight against me? ’ He said, ‘But, by Allah-azwj! Fighting against you, the least is the severe’. Then he stood up and came to Al-Zubeyr and said, ‘O Abu Abdullah! There is a pact of the people with you, and you, on the day Abu Bakr was pledged allegiance to, had grabbed the hilt of the sword saying, ‘There is no one foremost with the command and the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws, and where is this stance from that? ’
He mentioned to him the blood of Usman. He said, ‘You and your companion (Talha) had perpetrated it’. He said, ‘Then go to Talha and listen to what he is saying’. He went to Talha and found him insisting upon the war and the Fitna so he returned to Usman Bin Huneyf and said, ‘It is the war, so prepare for it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And when Ali-asws encamped at Al-Basra, Ayesha wrote to Zayd Bin Sowhan Al-Abdy, ‘From Ayesha Bint Abu Bakr the truthful, wife of the Prophet-saww, to her son, the sincere, Zayd Bin Sowhan. As for after, ‘Stay in your house and forsake Ali-asws and let it reach me from you what I would love, for you are the most trustworthy of my family in my presence. And the greetings’. He wrote to her, ‘From Zayd Bin Sowhan to Ayesha Bint Abu Bakr. As for after, surely Allah-azwj has Commanded you with a Command and has Commanded us with a Command. He-azwj Commanded you to dwell in your house, and Commanded us that we fight. And your letter has come to me instructing me to do opposite to what Allah-azwj has Commanded me, that I should happen to be doing what Allah-azwj has Commanded you with it. Therefore, your instructions in my presence are not to be obeyed, and your letter is not to be answered to. And the greetings’’. [124]