1. Aishah Bint Abu Bakr Radia Allahu ‘anha
Prepared by
Ruba Skaik
IPC

2. Questions Who was the first among men to embrace Islam?
Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq 
Who was the first among women to embrace Islam?
Khadeeja Bint Khuwailed 
Prophet Mohammed married widows, divorced women except one who was she?
Aisha Bint Abu Bakr 

3. Questions Who was Aisha’s Father 
Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq 
Mention some of Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq’s  good deeds/ descriptions:
The first believer
Ateeq (freed from the Fire)
His nickname Al-Seqdeeq
“The second of the two; when they were in the cave”
A number of the most revered Companions embraced Islam at his hands, name some?

4. Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq
One of the ten persons given the glad tidings of Paradise
Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq
Omar bin Al-Khattab
Othman bin Affan
Ali bin Abi Talib
Talha bin Obaidellah
Azzubair bin Al-Awwam
Abdul-Rahman bin Oof
Saed bin Abi Waqqas
Saeed bin Zaid
Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah

5. More Questions…
Who was the most beloved of Allah’s creation to the Messenger of Allah 
Aisha bint Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq 
Who was the most beloved of Allah’s creation to the Messenger of Allah  (among men)
Abu Bakr Al-Sedeeq 

6. More About Abu Bakr … He trusted him in religious and worldly matters
He deputed him to lead the people in prayer
The first to collect the chapters of the Quran in one volume
Fought the apostasy war against those who apostatized
Spent large sums of money in the cause of propagating Islam

7. More Questions… Who was the mother of Aisha Bint Abu Bakr 
Umm Ruman, God-fearing and virtues woman who died during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah 
Who were the two supporters for the Prophet  at the early stages of revelation
His Uncle Abu Talib,
and his wife Khadeejah 

8. Overview Her Family Year of Sadness Her Marriage
The Love prophet  had for Aisha
The Affair of the Slander
Aisha’s Knowledge

9. The Affair of the Slander

10. The Story Banu Al-Mustaliq were preparing to attack Madinah
The Messenger of Allah  decided to launch a surprise attack against them
He set out with his army
He drew lots among his wives (custom)
The lot fell to Aisha 
She climbed her howdah and set out with him

11. Cont…
The two armies met and the battle ended in defeat for them and victory for the Muslim army
During they way back, the army stopped to rest, Aisha  left the camp to answer the call of nature then to search for her necklace
The Messenger of Allah  decided to go on, the men responsible for raising the howdah didn’t recognize her absence

12. Cont…
She was alone in an empty place, she decided to remain where she was till they come and fetch her
While she was sleeping one of the companions “Safwan bin Al-Mu’attal” passed by her, he said: “To Allah we belong and to Him shall we return! It is the wife of the Messenger of Allah ”
She covered her face, and didn’t speak a word, he brought the camel and asked her to mount the camel but did not catch up with them till the following day

13. Cont…
When they reached Madinah hypocrites accused Aisha  and Safwan 
People in Madinah were divided into four groups about the story of the Slander. 
The first, which was the majority, neither believed such incident nor denied what people were saying; most of them have kept to their silence.

14. Reaction
People of the second group, who were a minority, strongly denied this hideous lie and could never even accept it. 
For example: Abu-Ayyub Al-Ansari  was asking his wife if she would have done such a thing if she had been in Aisha’s place; She swore by Allah that she would never have done it; he told her then that Aisha would never do it too, since Aisha – being the Prophet’s wife and thus a mother to all the believers - is surely better. 

15. Reaction
People of the third group had nearly the same attitude as those of the first one, except that here they helped this scandal to spread. 
This was either through talking a lot and even writing poetry about it, e.g. Hassan Ibn-Thabit, or through talking ill about Aisha, e.g. Mistah Ibn-Uthatha and Hamna Bint-Jahsh, who was the sister of the Prophet’s wife Zainab Bint-Jahsh and who always knew that Zainab was second favored after Aisha to the Prophet . 

16. Hypocrites behind the Slander
People of the fourth group, who were the reason and the origin of this whole thing to arise and then spread, were of course the hypocrites of Madinah.
It is said that the one who carried most of the slander mission was Abdullah IbnUbai Ibn-Salul.

17. Aisha Situation
Aisha said that she kept weeping for two whole nights and a day continuously and could never sleep until she thought her liver would burst from weeping.  The Prophet  and Aisha really suffered; besides, the Divine Revelation did not come to the Prophet  for a whole month.

18. The Prophet Mohammed  Status
the Prophet  asked Barira, Aisha’s slave, if anything aroused her suspicion about Aisha.  Barira denied and swore by Allah on that. 
He  asked his wife Zainab the same thing, she swore that she knew nothing about Aisha except good. 

19. At this point, the Prophet  felt that another step should be done
At this point, the Prophet  felt that another step should be done.  Meanwhile, he  can neither resort to violence by all means, nor can he  go to people and tell them that his wife is innocent because there is no Qur’anic ayah was revealed to support him; i.e. no tangible evidence whatsoever.

20. Anyway, the Prophet (SAWS) stood on the pulpit and faced to the people saying, “O Muslims! Who will help me against a man ( i.e. Ibn-Salul) who has hurt me by slandering my family? By Allah, I know nothing except good about my family. And people have blamed a man (i.e. Safwan) of whom I know nothing except good, and he never used to visit my family except with me”.  

21. Aisha Telling the Story
Aisha said, “on that day I kept on weeping Allah's Messenger came to us, greeted, and sat down. He had never sat with me since the day when what was said was said. He had stayed a month without receiving any Divine Revelation concerning my case.
"Thereafter, O 'Aisha! I have been informed such and such a thing about you; and if you are innocent, Allah will reveal your innocence, and if you have committed a sin, then ask for Allah's forgiveness and repent to Him, for when a worshiper of Allah confesses his sin and then repents to Allah, Allah accepts his repentance". 

22. Cont..
When Allah's Messenger finished his speech, my tears ceased completely so that I no longer felt even a drop thereof. Then I said to my father, "Reply to Allah's Messenger on my behalf as to what he said".  He (i.e. her father Abu-Bakr) said, "By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Messenger". 

23. Cont..
Then I said to my mother, "Reply to Allah's Messenger".  She said, "I do not know what to say to Allah's Messenger". 
Still a young girl as I was and though I had little knowledge of Qur’an. I said, "By Allah, I know that you heard you have believed it. So now, if I tell you that I am innocent, and Allah knows that I am innocent, you will not believe me; and if I confess something, and Allah knows that I am innocent of it, you will believe me.

24. فَصَبْرٌ جَمِيلٌ وَاللّهُ الْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَى مَا تَصِفُونَ
By Allah, I cannot find of you an example except that of Yusuf’s father :
فَصَبْرٌ جَمِيلٌ وَاللّهُ الْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَى مَا تَصِفُونَ
“So patience is most fitting. And it is Allah Whose Help can be sought against that (lie) which you describe”

25. Aisha continued, “Then I turned away and lay on my bed, and at that time I knew that I was innocent and that Allah would reveal my innocence. But, by Allah, I never thought that Allah would sent down a Divine Revelation that would be recited (forever), as I considered myself too unworthy to be talked of by Allah with something that was to be recited

26. The Affair of the Slander
“Verily, those who brought forth the slander are a group among you. Consider it not a bad thing for you. Nay, it is good for you. To every man among them will be paid that which he had earned of the sin, and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be a great torment.”

27. Leasons
Hypocrites intention to harm the Messenger of Allah by accusing his wife 
Whatever harmed Aisha  would hurt him 
No one should accuse any Muslim of committing adultery without evidence.
Disciplining the Believers for spreading the Slander
The punishment for the people who spread the slander.

28. Aisha’s Knowledge
Scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence with a broad knowledge of Hadeeth
Urwah bin Al-Zubair said: “ I have not seen anyone with greater knowledge of Quran or its obligations or the lawful and the unlawful, or the poetry or the sayings of the Arabs or the genealogy than Aishah”
She narrated 2210 Hadeeth

29. The End