[Intro] The fourth reason why
we don't follow Aisha, many of the hadith's she narrates
or are attributed to her are inappropriate and
damage the dignity of RasoolAllah sallalahu
alaihi wa alehe. I'm not just talking about
any hadith in Bukhari, no there's many of them, that
really disrespect the Prophet but these are
specifically from Aisha. I'll share with you
these hadiths. So this hadith is in Bukhari, Urwa the relative, the nephew
of Aisha he narrates this, he says ,"An Aisha,"
from Aisha, [Arabic] The Prophet entered
my room and I have two slave girls singing, so the Prophet he
basically laid down on a sheet on a blanket, and he turned his face away, like you know,
I'm not part of this. Then Abu Bakr
came and Abu Bakr he reprimanded me,
he rebuked me. Aisha's narrating this
and he told me the instrument of Shaytaan is here in the house
of the Prophet? The Prophet came to Abu Bakr and he tried to calm him down,
he told him [Arabic] "It's okay", let them, you know they're playing,
they're just having a good time, no problem. It's a day of
Eid and let them play. Then after that Aisha says outside there
were slaves playing or boys playing because it's
a day of Eid they're playing. Aisha said to the Prophet,
Ya RasoolAllah, I am interested in seeing what's happening outside
but I'm not tall enough to see, so can you carry me on
your shoulder so I can see. The Prophet said,
yeah, sure, sure, those boys dancing
let's watch them. So he carried Aisha
on his shoulder and they began to saw and
she had a really good time. This is a hadith that Aisha narrates in Bukhari. Why would I
follow a woman and consider her a source
of my religious beliefs when she says something so insulting
about the Prophet like that? Is this appropriate? Number two, this is
another hadith in Bukhari. Aisha says my father
Abu Bakr, he came and those two slave girls
were singing, right? Abu Bakr said, you
know, the trumpet or the musical instrument of Shaytaan
in the house of the Prophet? The Prophet told him,
Ya Abu Bakr, it's okay, everyone has a Eid, that's
their Eid today, let them play. Yani the Prophet is going to make
an exception in his own house? He comes on the pulpit,
he tells people no singing but okay, in my house it's
okay, it's a day of Eid. This is an insult to RasoolAllah
sallalahu alaihi wa alehe. That's the first category
of hadith that we have from Aisha. The second category that
we have are very inappropriate hadiths in which
Aisha reveals inappropriate sexual information
about the Prophet. In this hadith Aisha, it has been
attributed to her, she said, [Arabic] "A man asked the Prophet" [Arabic] Aisha says, the Prophet
was asked the scenario, a man is having an intimate
relationship with his wife, he can't finish to the end, does he still have
to do ghusl? [Arabic] The Prophet said, yeah
me and this Aisha we have the same situation
but I still do take a shower. That means I become intimate
with her and then I can't finish till the end so I go and I do
take the shower so yeah, you take the shower.
Who narrates this? Aisha. If you have respect
for your husband, for RasoolAllah, is this
something you say? First of all the Prophet
wouldn't say something like that. Number two, assuming he did. You go and narrate this
sensitive information, why? Why would I follow a
woman who doesn't have respect for her own Prophet?
For her own husband? For herself, okay she doesn't
want to respect herself, don't respect herself.
This is the Prophet of Allah. Number three, Aisha narrates
and claims the Prophet fell under the spell
of magic, suhir, and Aisha, oh by the
way this is all Bukhari. I'm not even bothering you with
like secondary sources. This is just Bukhari. Aisha narrates in Bukhari [Arabic] The Prophet was
struck with magic, under the spell of magic,
black magic to the point where he thought he
had done things but he didn't, yani he lost his mind,
his memory. He thought he had
done some things but he really
actually did not, and then you know
she continues to give an example of how the
Prophet made mistakes in certain things because he
was under the spell of magic we don't need to go
into the detail of that. My dear brothers and
sisters Surah al-Furqaan in narrating what the Kaffirs
said about the Prophet, says, [Arabic] The zaalim's,
the oppressor's say, you are following this
man Muhammad, who's mashoor, who is is
under the spell of magic. The Quran's perspective
is that the disbelievers would claim Muhammad
was under the spell of magic and that's why
he's reciting the Quran so it's not really from
God it's from magic. Bukhari confirms that
Aisha had the same view, she believed the Prophet
was under the spell of magic. What the Quran attributes
to the disbelievers, Bukhari tries to confirm. What kind of a religion is this? [Audience: What's the chapter?] This I can send
you, the actual text, you know because these are
in different versions, chapters, I can send you the actual text
but these this is the actual text from you know Bukhari. If you'd like the hadith number, I'll give you the hadith number here, you can look it up. Okay. So this is hadith 3028, 3028. The chapter is called
the Bad il Khalq, The Beginning of Creation, and the sub
chapter is called Sifat Iblis wa Junudihi, the attributes of Satan
and his soldiers. So Hadith 3028. That's the source for
this particular hadith. Okay another disturbing category of hadith
that we find from Aisha-- The Quran is very clear. The Quran says to the men,
to the husbands, do not be intimate with your
wives when they are in their monthly cycle. In haidh. Mahaidh the Quran calls it. Aisha claims when
she was in haidh, the Prophet would be
intimate with her, and there's many hadiths
by the way about this you know, not just one or two.
I'll just share with you one. First of all Aisha
says in one hadith, [Arabic] The Messenger of Allah would be intimate with me
and I am in the state of haidh and then she claims
later on that I would wash him while I was
in the state of haidh. She also claims that the Prophet,
all this is in Bukari by the way, she also claims that I
was in the state of haidh and the Prophet would
basically put his head or lean towards my lap and
he would read the Quran. Why mention these details? Is this something
appropriate for wife to do? My husband's head
was in my lap and I was in haidh and he
was reading the Quran or he was leaning on me
what's this nonsense? And then she also you
know, accuses the Prophet of approaching and
being intimate with other women in
the state of haidh. Tayyib the Quran, there's a
verse in the Quran that says you husbands, you cannot be
intimate with your wives in haidh, yani RasoolAllah's going to violate
that? You want me to respect a woman who claims that?
Or a book that claims that? You know when you have
discussions with Ahle Sunnah or read their books
or their debates, the way they frame
this discussion it's as if we Shia's have a
personal grudge against Aisha and they get
really disturbed. You know I've seen
some of their speakers. What is it you
Shia and Aisha? Why this hatred to
Ummul Mo'mineen? Tayyib, it's not a matter of
me making a personal issue. Surah at-Tahrim as we've seen,
it said, their hearts strayed and they made a conspiracy and it never stated that they
did tawba, remember that. We also examined
how the Prophet in Bukhari, said,
'fitna's from here.' Suwahibaat Yusuf
or Sawahib Yusuf and then these hadiths
that she's narrating and then her not following
the instruction of the Quran, leaving the house and mobilising
an army against Imam Ali. Then why should I
respect someone like that? It's not a matter of it being
personal or not. Yes? [Audience: What's confusing is that,
if I were to be in her shoes and be narrating a hadith like that,
why would I narrate such hadith? And like even if I'm in her shoes, I would
know that this is wrong, its gonna--] Khalaas, 'Ummul Mo'mineen'
said it. You know why?
I'll tell you the analysis. The analysis is that Aisha wanted to show that she's so special and the Prophet was
so desperate for her even in the state of haidh
he'd go next to her. That's the idea. It's to give the impression
that I'm his favourite and that he loved
me so much, that he'd basically
lose his mind when he sees me.
That's the idea. That's the entire idea
behind this hadith Another hadith that Aisha narrates
in Bukhari is that the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa alehe wanted to commit suicide, and basically you know
when Jibrail comes to him and he squeezes him,
he traumatizes him, and he says, I can't read,
what are you doing? And he you know gets very upset and he wanted
to commit suicide and then he went to Khadijah,
cover me, cover me. So this is something that you find
also Aisha narrating unfortunately. [Audience: Is that after
he went to the cave?] Yeah, yeah that's
after Cave Hira. Yeah in Bukhari basically you know, he gives you the
impression that he was being squeezed and he tried
to commit suicide but Jibrail stopped him. So to summarise our
analysis of these hadiths, you know someone
who narrates this hadith is not to be trusted, and she has shown
time and time again that she will exaggerate
and fabricate hadith to show she's the
Prophet's favourite. I'm not going to trust
someone with my religion, you know someone like
that with my religious beliefs. There is one argument that
someone can make even though there's
no evidence for it, to vindicate Aisha and to basically you know keep her away from
all these fabrications. We can say that Aisha
never actually said this. Later narrators maybe, they
came, they fabricated this and Bukhari
fabricated or anybody and they basically put
her in the link. It's possible theoretically
but it's very unlikely because it's not one or two
hadiths, it's multiple sources, multiple chains, so that usually
gives us confidence she said at least some of them if
not all of them, some of them, but theoretically
it is possible. It's also possible that
Muawiyyah was behind this because early on Aisha and Muawiyyah were on
the same camp against Imam Ali. After Imam Ali alaihis
salam was assassinated Muawiyyah turned against Aisha and they became very
bitter, in fact we have historical evidence
Muawiyyah killed Aisha. In a long story maybe
we'll cover one day. So Muawiyyah and Aisha
became at odds, just like she became
at odds with Uthman and she actually
asked people to go and you know punish him. It's possible that Muawiyyah
wanted to ruin her image so he paid the narrators
to fabricate these hadiths and attribute it to her, to show
like she was a low woman. Maybe, it's possible. Our scholars don't have
any evidence for that but it's theoretically possible, but indications are
she said them. [Audience: Sayyidna if that's the
case then it backfired on them because now people praise her
because of these hadith]. Well the people are stubborn
so they'll take a vice and turn it into a virtue,
yeah Ahle Sunnah consider this a source
of praise you know? She's very beloved by the
Prophet, he can't leave her, he has to go next to
her even in that state. So yes later on they
had to somehow find the justification for it, so yeah maybe it did
backfire assuming he did that. Like I said there's no
really historical evidence, it's just an thought that
some scholars have had. [Audience question] No this is Bukhari. According to mainstream
Sunnah, they do but according to mainstream
Ahle Sunnah Bukhari is sahih. Those who appear, but
even according to Sunni standards of Ilm e Rajaal,
Science of Men, a lot of these hadiths are Sahih
according to their standards yeah. Meaning the narrators according to Ahle Sunnah standards are reliable, not every single one of them but a lot of them are Sahih, yes, So we have an issue
here it's a problem. Yes? [Audience: If we know that
Aisha is somebody who exaggerated a lot
or makes stuff up, why do we sometimes
take some of her stuff that praises
Fatima Az Zahra, for example and we cherry pick
the things that we like?] See it's not about cherry picking, the person who exaggerates and spreads follow falsehood it doesn't mean
they always do that. Sometimes they'll
narrate the truth too. So we have Sahih hadith's based on Sahih hadith and also based on the understanding
of Quran that Lady Fatima has a high status so if there is someone
who will confirm this truth, we can always cite their
word regardless of whom the person is because
we know it's truth. We don't believe
Fatima has the status because Aisha said it, no.
We already have our own evidence but if Aisha also confirmed
Fatima had a high status, this works to solidify this because Ahle Sunnah
believe in what Aisha says. So we tell Ahle Sunnah,
look Fatima no dispute. We Shia, you Sunnah, we believe
she's has a very high status, she's from the Ahlulbayt,
so let's follow her. Whereas Aisha is disputed,
we have a different approach, so why don't you follow someone
where there's unanimous agreement that she was a
decent woman to be followed. That's why we use her shahada. The last discussion
we'll conclude with is. [Audience: But at least
out of respect to the Prophet because she
was his wife] See we don't accuse
her of anything indecent because then that could
encroach on the Prophet but if she made an act of
disobedience for instance if she mobilised people
against the Imam of her time which even Sunnis
believe is a big offense, I have the right according to
the Quran to curse someone who mobilises people to fight the
Imam of the time, it's a big offense. So definitely we can
curse those who mobilise people against the
true Imam of their time, but is it wise to mention people by
name in front of other sects? No, because this creates tension,
but between me and my Lord do I curse them?
Absolutely, it's a sign of faith. The Quran commands us. The Quran in one verse states
those who hurt the Prophet [Arabic] Allah curses them. Who am I not to curse them
if Allah is cursing them? I'll share with you
some other instances of Aisha disrespecting
the Prophet. We have this hadith in the book
Amthal al-Hadith and basically as
Sheikh al-Asbahani, is a Sunni scholar,
he mentions this hadith, that Aisha got angry once and she said to the Prophet "you claim you're
a Prophet of God" and the Prophet just smiled. If you want a better source,
have you heard of Seerat al-Halbiya? Seerat al-Halbiya is one
of the works of the seerah that even many, many
Sunnis they take the biography of the
Prophet from Seerat al-Halbiya. It's one of the, we have
Seerat al-Ibn Hisham and we have Seerat
al-Halbiya, these are the two important sources on the
biography of the Prophet. He mentions this hadith. Basically, the Prophet
was traveling and Aisha had a camel. The camel of Aisha was quick. Safiya the other
wife of the Prophet had a lot of luggage
let's say, so she needed that camel that was faster so she could be at pace with the caravan because her camel
was slow and you're loading a lot
of things on it, she would have
been left behind. So the Prophet
said switch camels. Aisha give your camel to her, you don't have a luggage
with you, she does. That way she can make
it with the caravan. Aisha got upset. Why did the Prophet ask
her to switch the camels. She said, [Arabic] "You claim
you're a Prophet?" The Prophet said,
what did you just say? [Arabic] Do you really doubt that
I'm the Messenger of Allah? She was like, then
why aren't you just? Then deal with justice. This is not Shia hadtih,
this is Sunni hadith. Abu Bakr was there, her father. He got so upset, he
slapped her on the face and he rebuked her. The Prophet told him, La Abu
Bakr, what you did was wrong, you should not have slapped
her, because remember the Prophet's not violent right? Even
when his wives make violations he's not going to accept for
them to be physically assaulted. Abu Bakr then told him, didn't
you just hear what she said? He's like it's okay,
you know leave her. Why would I follow a woman like
that who says this to the Prophet? You want another Sunni hadith? At-Tabarani in
his book al-Awsat and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi,
Sunni historian in his book at-Tarikh, he says, an argument
happened between the Prophet and Aisha, so they had to go
and get Abu Bakr to mediate. Right? There's an argument,
they couldn't solve it, Abu Bakr had to
come and mediate. So the Prophet said to Aisha,
do you want to talk first or do you want me to go? She's like, no, you go and
don't say but the truth. First of all do you tell the Prophet
don't say about the truth? Like, do you really believe
this guy is a Prophet or no? Don't say about the truth. When she said that Abu Bakr
slapped her on the face until blood came from
her lips. He told her, [Arabic] You're the enemy
of your own self. How is the Prophet going
to say other than the truth? Is that even possible? So she ran
towards the Prophet, behind his back
for protection. The Nabi, the Prophet
told Abu Bakr, look when we asked you to mediate,
we didn't ask you to come and hit her. I'm
not okay with that. You know what
you did was wrong. So the Prophet rebuked Abu
Bakr. You shouldn't have hit her, we just asked you to mediate. It's a Sunni hadith my
dear brothers and sisters. It has nothing to do with Shia hadith.
I gave you two Sunni sources. There's also another interesting hadith here by Tabarani. Once the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa alehe he went to see Aisha and Abu Bakr
was there, so the Prophet says, [Arabic] Aisha, you know we're hungry,
get us some food. She said, [Arabic] I swear we don't
have any food. The Prophet said again,
give us some food. She said I swear by
God there's no food. The third time the Prophet
asked her Abu Bakr kind of, you know he kind of objected
to the Prophet, Ya RasoolAllah, yani she's saying three times there is no food
and she's taking an oath on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and Abu Bakr
said, [Arabic] A believing woman would not
make an oath and say Wallah I don't have food and she really
does. Yani Abu Bakr was telling the Prophet, look you know
she's a believing woman, she's not lying when
she takes that oath. You know what the
Prophet said to Abu Bakr? [Arabic] How do you know
she's a believer or no? Sunni source,
not a Shia source. Strong statement
from the Prophet and then the Prophet
basically rebuked her. My dear brothers and sisters, I'm not claiming
every single hadith we've mentioned
is a Sahih hadith. Yeah it's Sunni sources. Someone
could say okay maybe somebody made a mistake. Somebody
had a grudge on Aisha even though he was
a Sunni, whatever. But what I've shared
with you in three classes, with a personality, that there's
so much around this personality, from the Surat at-Tahrim, from the Battle of Jamal, from all the things
we've discussed. The preposterous hadiths
in Bukhari that she said about the Prophet
from our last class, why would I follow her as my
role model? You tell me why? Why wouldn't I follow Fatima,
who's pure, unscathed. Every Muslim respects her
and knows she was infallible. Never did she make
a mistake in her life. Or Ali Ibn AbiTalib
or Imam al-Hassan, Sayyid Shabab Ahle Jannat,
or Imam Al-Hussain. Why would I follow her
as my religious authority, when there is so much
controversy around her? Why? Which intellect tells you that? Okay you're gonna sit there
and justify every one of these hadiths. Fine,
this hadith you'll justify, that hadith you'll find an
explanation for it, but with all of this we have hundreds
of these disturbing hadiths, the least you can say is
she's a controversial figure. Why would I take her as
my religious authority? Why? That's my question
to Muslims today. Why take a figure who is
at least a controversial figure? Okay you have a couple of hadith
you know that praise her in Bukhari, such as you know, compared
to other women she's like the food that the
Prophet loved. Whatever. That does not change the fact
that she's a controversial person. Why would I follow her and consider
her the best wife of the Prophet?
