The Book of Marriage, Breastfeeding, Divorce, Mutual Oath-Swearing, and Manumission-09a
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The reciter: And Muhammad ibn Hatim narrated to me, Hajjaj ibn Muhammad narrated to us, he said: Ibn Jurayj informed us, he said: 'Ata informed me that he heard 'Ubayd ibn 'Umar narrating that he heard 'A'ishah: Mishkat al-Masabih 3278.
The Shaykh : And Zaynab bint Jahsh was one whom the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) loved, and she was the one who equaled 'A'ishah in status with the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). For this reason, her co-wives envied her, as is clear from the hadiths. So it appears, and Allah knows best, that the love of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) for her was for reasons, among which is that Allah was the one who married him to her. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Ahzab 33:37] And among them is that by his marriage to her, an innovation was extinguished, or rather a pre-Islamic custom was extinguished, which is that an adopted son is not permitted for the one who adopted him to marry his wife. So this was invalidated by the fact that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) married Zaynab bint Jahsh, who was the wife of whom? Of Zayd ibn Harithah, yes.
The reader:
The Shaykh : So they conspired.
The reciter: It says: "So I conspired, this is how it is in the manuscripts: 'I conspired,' and its original form is 'tawata'tu' with the hamzah, meaning 'I agreed'".
The Shaykh : Yes, I have it in the original text, I have it in the original text, yes.
The reciter: "She said: So I and Hafsa conspired that whichever of us the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered upon, she would say: 'I find a smell of myrrh on you. Did you eat myrrh?'".
The Shaykh : "Did you eat" means "Did you eat?" So it is an interrogative sentence from which the hamzah of interrogation was omitted, yes.
The reader: ... فدخل على إحداهما فقالت ذلك له فقال بل شربت عسلا عند زينب بنت جحش ولن أعود له فنزل لم تحرم ما أحل الله لك إلى قوله إن تتوبا لعائشة وحفصة وإذ أسر النبي إلى بعض أزواجه حديثا لقوله بل شربت عسلا ...So he entered upon one of them, and she said that to him. He said: "Rather, I drank honey at the house of Zaynab bint Jahsh, and I will not return to it." So [the verse] "Do you not make haram what Allah has made halal for you" was revealed, up to His saying "If you both repent to Allah" for 'A'ishah and Hafsa, and "And when the Prophet confided a matter to one of his wives" [was revealed] regarding his saying "Rather, I drank honey.".
The Shaykh : In this story, the two wives, may Allah forgive them, agreed on this scheme. "Did you eat myrrh?" Myrrh is a plant with a foul smell, similar to onions and garlic and the like. And they did not say "You ate," but they asked "Did you eat myrrh?" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said that he did not eat this, but rather he drank honey.
The Prophet used to spend time with Zainab daughter of Jahsh and that he once drank honey at her house, so Hafsa and she agreed
تخبر أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يمكث عند زينب بنت جحش فيشرب عندها عسلا قالت فتواطيت أنا وحفصة ..The Shaykh : And Zaynab bint Jahsh was one whom the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) loved, and she was the one who equaled 'A'ishah in status with the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). For this reason, her co-wives envied her, as is clear from the hadiths. So it appears, and Allah knows best, that the love of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) for her was for reasons, among which is that Allah was the one who married him to her. Allah the Exalted said:
So when Zayd had no longer any need for her, We married her to you
فلما قضى زيد منها وطرا زوجناكهاThe reader:
She said: So I and Hafsa conspired...
قالت فتواطيت أنا وحفصة ..The Shaykh : So they conspired.
The reciter: It says: "So I conspired, this is how it is in the manuscripts: 'I conspired,' and its original form is 'tawata'tu' with the hamzah, meaning 'I agreed'".
The Shaykh : Yes, I have it in the original text, I have it in the original text, yes.
The reciter: "She said: So I and Hafsa conspired that whichever of us the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered upon, she would say: 'I find a smell of myrrh on you. Did you eat myrrh?'".
The Shaykh : "Did you eat" means "Did you eat?" So it is an interrogative sentence from which the hamzah of interrogation was omitted, yes.
The reader: ... فدخل على إحداهما فقالت ذلك له فقال بل شربت عسلا عند زينب بنت جحش ولن أعود له فنزل لم تحرم ما أحل الله لك إلى قوله إن تتوبا لعائشة وحفصة وإذ أسر النبي إلى بعض أزواجه حديثا لقوله بل شربت عسلا ...So he entered upon one of them, and she said that to him. He said: "Rather, I drank honey at the house of Zaynab bint Jahsh, and I will not return to it." So [the verse] "Do you not make haram what Allah has made halal for you" was revealed, up to His saying "If you both repent to Allah" for 'A'ishah and Hafsa, and "And when the Prophet confided a matter to one of his wives" [was revealed] regarding his saying "Rather, I drank honey.".
The Shaykh : In this story, the two wives, may Allah forgive them, agreed on this scheme. "Did you eat myrrh?" Myrrh is a plant with a foul smell, similar to onions and garlic and the like. And they did not say "You ate," but they asked "Did you eat myrrh?" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said that he did not eat this, but rather he drank honey.