Aishah (radhiallaho anha) too was married to the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallam) in Shawwal of 10th year of the mission. She was born in the 4th yare of the mission and was married when she was six and was actually sent by his parents to live with Prophet after his emigration to Medina when she was nine. She was eighteen at time of the prophet death. She died on the night of Tuesday, the 17th Ramadan 57 A.H. at the age of sixty-six. She desired at the time of her death that she might be buried along with other Ummuhat-ul-Momineen, in the public gravead, though she could be buried by the said of the Prophet's grave which was in her house. She was the only wife of the Prophet who had not been married previously. All the remaining wives had either been widowed or divorced (some quite a few times) before they become UmmuhatulMumineen. To be married in Shawwal was considered a bad omen among the the Arab women. 

Aishah (radhiallaho anha) says: " I was married in Shawwal. It was also Shawaal when I was sent to live with the Prophet (sallallho alahi wasallam). Which of the Prophet's wives has been more blessed with his love and Allah's other favours than me?"

On the death of Khadijah, Khaulah-bint-Hakim came to the Prophet (sallallho alahi wasallam) and said: " O, Prophet of Allah ! Don't you like to marry again? "

The prophet : " Whom can I marry ?"

Khaulah :      " I know one virgin and one widow."

The Prophet : " Name them."

Khaulah :       " The virgin is Aishah, the daughter of your bosom friend Abu Bakr and the widow is Saudah-bint-Zamah."

The Propeht : " All right ! You may make the proposal."

Kahulah then went to Aishah's mother Ummu-Rooman and said to her:
            &nb sp;    " I have come with a tremendous good for your family."
     Ummu Rooman : What is that ?"

Kkoulah : " The prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam) has sent me to seek Aishah's hand for him."

Ummu Rooman : " But Aishah is hid niece? How can she be married to him ? Let me consult her father."

Abu Bakr (radhiallaho anho) was not at home at that time. When he come, the Proposal was placed before him and he expressed the same difficulty. Khaulah returned to the prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam) and apprised him of their difficulty. 
    The prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam) said:
        " Abu Bakr is my bosom friend and brother-in-Islam but this does not forbid my marring his daughter."

Khaulah went and informed Abu Bakr accordingly. Abu Bakr was too glad to call the prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam) to his home and perform Aisha's ' Nikah' with him. A few months after when the prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam) had emigrated to Madina, Abu Bakr (radhiallaho anho) said to the prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam):
             " Why don't have your wife Aisha live with you?"

He said:   " I have to get some furniture, etc., before I do that." 
Abu Bakr presented him some money with which necessary things were arranged. Aishah then started living with the Prophet from Shawwal of 1 ar 2 A.H. She shared the bad with the Prophet for the first time in Abu Bakr's house.

These are the three marriages which the prophet (sallallaho alaihai wasallam) had before Hijrah. All the remaining wives came to him in Medina.

Aishah's  spending the path of Allah
Once Aishah (radiallaho anha) recevied a gift two bags containing 1,00,000 Darham. She started distributing these among the poor till by the evening not a single Darham was left with her. She was keeping fast that day. Her maid servant brought her a loaf of bread and a little olive oil for Iftar and remarked. ' I wish we had kept one Darham for ourselves to get some meat for Iftar.'
     Aishah said : " Don't be sorry now. If you had told me at that time I would have perhaps given you one Darham." 

Once she was fasting and had noting for her Iftar expcet one piece of bread. A poor man came and begged for some food. She asked her maid to give him that piece. 

The maid said: "If I give him the piece of bread, there will be nothing left for your Iftar."
Aishah said: " Don't mind. Let him have the piece."
Once she killed a snake. She saw a vision in her dream saying:
" Aishah you killed a Muslim."
Aishah replied: " How could a Muslim come into the house of the Prophet widow?"
The vision rejoined: " But he had come in Purdah."
She abruptly got up from her sleep and at once spent 12.000 Darhams in Sadaqah as that was the blood-money fixed for a Muslim killed by mistake. 
Urwah (radhiallaha anho) said: I Once saw Aishah spending 70,000 Darham in charity while she herself was wearing a shirt with patches."

Aishah  gets angry with Ibn-Zubair
Abdullah-bin-Zubair was Aishah's nephew. He was very dear to her as she had brought him up. He did not like spending so much in charity while she herself lived in want and poverty. He mentioned this to somebody and said: " I must stop her from doing that."

She learnt about it and was so much upset that she swore not to speak with Abdullah for the rest of her life. Abdullaha-bin-Zubair (radhiallao anho) was very much shocked by her oath. He deputed many people to speak to her for him but she told them,

" I have taken an oath and I am not prepared to violate it."

He, at last, took two persons from the family of the Prophet's mother to her house to intercede for him. Aishah (radhiallaho anha) allowed the persons to enter the house and to speak to her from behind a curtain. IbnZubair also stealthily got in with the persons. When the persons started takling, he could not control himself and crossed the curtain and feel at the feet of her aunt crying and entreating her for pardon. The two persons also interceded and reminded her of the Prophet's forbidding a Muslim form discarding speech with another Muslim. When she heard this Hadith she got scared of Allah's displeasure and the result thereof and began to weep very bitterly. She forgave Zubair adn began to speak with him. She was then liberating slave after slave in expiation of her oath till 40 slaves had been st free by her. Even later on whenever she thought of the violation of her oath, she wept so much that her shawl would become wet with her tears.

Aishah and fear of Allah
Who dose not know about the love that the Prophet (sallallaho alaaihi wasallam) had for his wife Aishah? It is said that when he was inquired whom he loved most, he replied, " Aishah."  She was so well-versed in Islamic jurisprudence that many eminent Sahabah would go to her for solving their problems in this field. jibrail used to greet her wit 'Assalam-o-alaikum' The Prophet (sallallaho alaaihi wasallam) once told her that she would be his wife in the Paradise. When she was slandered by the Munafiqin, Allah exonerated her from the slander and confirmed her innocence by revealing verses on the Qur'an.

According to Ibn-Sa'ad,  " Aishah once enumerated as many as ten special virtues which Allah had given her over the other wives of the Prophet (sallallaho alaaihi wasallam). Her spending in the path of Allah has already been narrated in the previous stories. In spite of all these privileges and virtues she feared Allah so much that she was often heard saying:

" I wish I were a tree so that I could be always busy in Allah's tasbih and be absolved of reckoning on the Day of Judgment."

" I wish I had been a stone or a clot of earth." 
" I wish I had been a leaf of tree or a blade of grass."
" I wish I had not been born at all

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