And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the...

And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the wife of Firon (Pharaoh) when she said: My Lord, build for me a house with Thee in the garden and deliver me from Firon and his doing, and deliver me from the unjust people” (Qur’an 66:10-11) . In this way Allah has set forth an example to them (Aa’isha and Hafsa) to warn them of what they had done and to make them know that just being a wife of a prophet or a tyrant would not benefit or harm. What would benefit or harm was one’s doing.

Engagement of Shiraf When the Prophet (S) wanted to engage Shiraf, the sister of Dahiyya al-Kalbi, he sent Aa’isha to see her. When Aa’isha came back, the Prophet (S) asked her: “What did you see (how was the girl)?” Aa’isha said: “There is no use.” The Prophet (S) said: “In fact, there is a use! You have seen a mole that made you shiver!” She said: “O Messenger of Allah, no secret can be hidden from you.

No one can hide anything from you.” [^8] She quarreled with the Prophet (S) Aa’isha said: “Once I quarreled with the Prophet (S) before (my father) Abu Bakr. I said to him: “O Messenger of Allah, be just!” Abu Bakr slapped me on my cheek and said: “Do you say to the Messenger of Allah “be just”? My nose began bleeding.” [^9] Being impolite to the Prophet (S) One day she became impolite to the Prophet (S).

From among what she had said to him on that day was her saying: “… you who pretend that you are the Messenger of Allah!!!” [^10] Criticizing Othman and ordering him to be killed All the historians have mentioned that Aa’isha often criticized Othman, faulted him and asked people to kill him. The traditions talking about this matter were true and recurrent and were mentioned by all the scholars of Hadith.

Ibn Abul Hadeed said in his book Sharh Nahjul Balagha : [^11] “All the historians have mentioned that Aa’isha had great grudge against Othman. One day she took out one of the Prophet’s dresses and spread it in her house. She said to whoever came in to her: “This is the dress of the Messenger of Allah. Before it ragged out, Othman had ragged the Sunna of the Prophet (S).” The historians said that the first one, who had called Othman as Na’thal, [^12] was Aa’isha. She often said: “Kill Na’thal!

May Allah kill Na’thal!” Al-Mada’ini mentioned in his book al-Jamal: “When Othman was killed, Aa’isha was in Mecca. When she was informed of that, she thought, with no doubt, that Talha was behind this matter.