“Would you not be satisfied in being my wife in this worldly life and in the Hereafter?” I said, “Of course, by Allāh!” He said, “Then you are my wife in this worldly life and in the Hereafter.”

Reported by Ibn Ḥibbān (7053 as in al-Iḥsān), and al-Ḥākim (4/10) by way of Saʿīd b. Yaḥyá al-Umawī: my father narrated to me: Abū al-ʿAnbas Saʿīd b. Kathīr narrated to me: from his father who said: ʿĀʾishah narrated to us that the Messenger of Allāh, may the praise and protection of Allah be upon him, mentioned Fāṭimah, she said, ‘So I spoke, and he said… and then mentioned the ḥadīth.

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Lessons

• Our noble mother ʿĀʾishah is amongst the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ who were specifically given the glad tidings of Paradise by the Prophet ﷺ himself.
• The lofty status and superiority of ʿĀʾishah over other women.
• One of the many merits of ʿĀʾishah.
• ʿĀʾishah will undoubtedly enter Paradise which indicates she is someone with whom Allāh is pleased.
• One who denies the fact ʿĀʾishah will enter Paradise is a disbeliever.
• ʿĀʾishah’s deep love for the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ in that she did not hesitate for a second in being pleased with choosing to be his wife in this life and the next.
• Just as ʿĀʾishah was intimately close to the Prophet ﷺ in this life, so shall she be in the Hereafter.