Hadith 115

as the day of lamentation. They continued, and with them were Aban and Al-Waleed, two sons of Usman, and Ya’la Bin Muniya gave Ayesha a camel called ‘Askar’. He had bought it for two hundred Dinars, and it is said he had bought it for eighty Dinars. She rode it, and it is said that her camel was of a man from Ureyna. The Ureyni said, ‘While I was travelling upon a camel, when a rider present to me. He said, ‘Will you sell your camel? ’ I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘For how much? ’ I said, ‘For a thousand Dirhams’. He said, ‘Are you insane? ’ I said, ‘And why? By Allah-azwj, I have not sought anyone to it except I came across him, nor has anyone sought me to it except I refused it’. He said, ‘If only you knew whom we want it for. But rather, we want it for mother of believers Ayesha’. I said, ‘Take with without a price’. He said, ‘But, return with us to the luggage, we shall give you a camel and some Dirhams’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I returned and they gave me an agile camel and four hundred Dirhams, or six hundred Dirhams, and they said to me, ‘O brother of Ureyna! Is there a guide for you with the roads? ’ I said, ‘I am from the most guiding of the people’. They said, ‘Travel with us’. I travelled with them. I did not pass by any valley except they asked me about it, until we were on the road to Al-Hawaab, and it is a river. Its dogs barked, and they said, ‘Which place is this? ’ I said, ‘This is the river of Al-Hawaab’. Ayesha shrieked at the top of her voice and she said, ‘Surely we are for Allah and to Him we are returning [2: 156]. Surely, I have heard Rasool-Allah-saww saying, and his-saww wives were in his-saww presence: ‘I-saww am not away which one of you the dogs of Al-Hawaab would be barking at’. Then she struck the fore-leg of her camel and stopped it, and she said, ‘Return me! By Allah-azwj, I am the one with the waters of Al-Hawaab. She stopped around it for a day and a night. Abdullah Bin Al-Zubeyr said, ‘He is lying’. And he did not cease to be with her she kept refusing. He said to her, ‘The rescue! The rescue! Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws has already come across you all! ’ They departed to around Al-Basra’. End of the speech of Ibn Al-Aseer (the historian)’’. [130]