Fadl Umm al-Muminin Aisha li-Ibn Asakir
- Author died
- 571 AH
- Editions
- Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah
Fadl Umm al-Muminin Aisha (The Virtue of the Mother of the Believers Aisha) is a hadith tract by the Damascene traditionist and historian Abu al-Qasim Ibn Asakir (499–571 AH / 1105–1176 CE), dedicated to the merits and virtues of the Prophet's wife Aisha bint Abi Bakr .
Nature and Composition
The work constitutes the forty-sixth dictation session (al-majlis al-sadis wa-al-arba'un) from the broader corpus of Ibn Asakir's dictation sessions (Amali) . Ibn Asakir delivered a total of 410 such dictation sessions in hadith . In this session, he records traditions with his own chains of transmission (isnad) tracing back to his teachers, including Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Farawi, Abu al-Muzaffar Abd al-Mun'im ibn Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (al-Sufi), and Abu al-Qasim Zahir ibn Tahir al-Shahhami .
Contents
The tract documents reports related to Aisha's transmissions and virtues. Among the narrations transmitted in the session are:
- The renowned hadith of the eleven women recounting their husbands' traits (Hadith Umm Zar'), narrated by Aisha through the chain of Hisham ibn Urwa from his brother Abd Allah ibn Urwa from their father Urwa ibn al-Zubayr .
- The extensive narration detailing the Incident of the Slander (Hadith al-Ifk), narrated from Aisha through Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri from Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, Said ibn al-Musayyib, Alqama ibn Waqqas, and Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Utba, recounting the details of the campaign against her and her divine vindication .
Publication
The text was edited by al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Haddadi and published in Beirut by Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah in 1426 AH (2005 CE) as the seventy-first booklet in the Liqa al-Ashr al-Awakhir bi-al-Masjid al-Haram series .
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