49. Specialties
٤٩۔ كِتَابُ الْخَصَائِصِ
[Machine] "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ slowed down one day while it was still daytime. When evening came, one of us said to him, 'O Messenger of Allah, you have burdened us today, we have not seen you all day.' He replied, 'Indeed, an angel from heaven did not see me so he sought permission from Allah to visit me and informed me that Fatimah, my daughter, is the leader of the women of my nation, and Hasan and Husain are the leaders of the youth of the people of Paradise.'"
أَبْطَأَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنَّا يَوْمًا صَدْرَ النَّهَارِ فَلَمَّا كَانَ الْعَشِيُّ قَالَ لَهُ قَائِلُنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ قَدْ شَقَّ عَلَيْنَا لَمْ نَرَكَ الْيَوْمَ قَالَ «إِنَّ مَلَكًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ لَمْ يَكُنْ رَآنِي فَاسْتَأْذَنَ اللهَ فِي زِيَارَتِي فَأَخْبَرَنِي أَوْ بَشَّرَنِي أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ ابْنَتِي سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ أُمَّتِي وَأَنَّ حَسَنًا وَحُسَيْنًا سَيِّدَا شَبَابِ أَهْلِ الْجَنَّةِ»
Once Fatima came walking and her gait resembled the gait of the Prophet ﷺ . The Prophet ﷺ said, "Welcome, O my daughter!" Then he made her sit on his right or on his left side, and then he told her a secret and she started weeping. I asked her, "Why are you weeping?" He again told her a secret and she started laughing. I said, "I never saw happiness so near to sadness as I saw today." I asked her what the Prophet ﷺ had told her. She said, "I would never disclose the secret of Messenger of Allah ﷺ." When the Prophet ﷺ died, I asked her about it. She replied. "The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Every year Gabriel used to revise the Qur'an with me once only, but this year he has done so twice. I think this portends my death, and you will be the first of my family to follow me.' So I started weeping. Then he said. 'Don't you like to be the chief of all the ladies of Paradise or the chief of the believing women? So I laughed for that." (Using translation from Bukhārī 3623)
كَأَنَّ مِشْيَتَهَا مِشْيَةُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ» فَقَالَ «مَرْحَبًا بِابْنَتِي ثُمَّ أَجْلَسَهَا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ أَوْ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ ثُمَّ أَسَرَّ إِلَيْهَا حَدِيثًا فَبَكَتْ» فَقُلْتُ لَهَا «اسْتَخَصَّكِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِحَدِيثِهِ وَتَبْكِينَ؟ ثُمَّ إِنَّهُ أَسَرَّ إِلَيْهَا حَدِيثًا فَضَحِكَتْ» فَقُلْتُ لَهَا مَا رَأَيْتُ كَالْيَوْمِ فَرَحًا أَقْرَبَ مِنْ حُزْنٍ وَسَأَلْتُهَا عَمَّا قَالَ فَقَالَتْ «مَا كُنْتُ لِأُفْشِيَ سِرَّ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حَتَّى إِذَا قُبِضَ سَأَلْتُهَا» فَقَالَتْ إِنَّهُ أَسَرَّ إِلَيَّ فَقَالَ «إِنَّ جِبْرِيلَ كَانَ يُعَارِضُنِي بِالْقُرْآنِ كُلَّ سَنَةٍ مَرَّةً وَإِنَّهُ عَارَضَنِي بِهِ الْعَامَ مَرَّتَيْنِ وَلَا أُرَانِي إِلَّا قَدْ حَضَرَ أَجْلِي وَإِنَّكِ أَوَّلُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي لَحَاقًا بِي وَنِعْمَ السَّلَفُ أَنَا لَكِ» قَالَتْ فَبَكَيْتُ لِذَلِكَ ثُمَّ قَالَ «أَمَا تَرْضَيْنَ أَنْ تَكُونِي سَيِّدَةَ نِسَاءِ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَوْ نِسَاءِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ؟» قَالَتْ «فَضَحِكْتُ»
[Machine] We were all with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and none of us would leave except one. Then Fatimah came walking, and by Allah, she walked exactly like the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until she reached him. So he said, "Welcome, my daughter," and made her sit to his right or left. Then he whispered something to her, and she burst into tears. Then he whispered something else to her, and she laughed. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ got up, I said to her, "The Messenger of Allah whispered something to you, and you cried. Tell me what he said to you." She said, "I would not disclose the secret of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. But when he passed away, I said, 'By the right I have over you, what did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say to you?' She said, 'As for now, yes, he told me something good but as for his first visit, he said, 'Gabriel used to revise the Qur'an with me once every year, but this year he has done it twice. I think that my time has come, so fear Allah and be patient.' Then he said, 'O Fatimah, are you pleased that you will be the lady of this ummah or the lady of all women of the world?' So I laughed."
كُنَّا عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ جَمِيعًا مَا تُغَادِرُ مِنَّا وَاحِدَةٌ فَجَاءَتْ فَاطِمَةُ تَمْشِي وَلَا وَاللهِ إِنْ تُخْطِئُ مِشْيَتِهَا مِشْيَةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ حَتَّى انْتَهَتْ إِلَيْهِ فَقَالَ «مَرْحَبًا بِابْنَتِي فَأَقْعَدَهَا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ أَوْ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ ثُمَّ سَارَّهَا بِشَيْءٍ فَبَكَتْ بَكَّاءً شَدِيدًا ثُمَّ سَارَّهَا بِشَيْءٍ فَضَحِكَتْ» فَلَمَّا قَامَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ قُلْتُ لَهَا «خَصَّكِ رَسُولُ اللهِ مِنْ بَيْنِنَا بِالسِّرَارِ وَأَنْتِ تَبْكِينَ» أَخْبِرِينِي مَا قَالَ لَكِ؟ قَالَتْ «مَا كُنْتُ لِأُفْشِيَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ سِرَّهُ فَلَمَّا تُوُفِّيَ» قُلْتُ لَهَا «أَسْأَلُكِ بِالَّذِي لِي عَلَيْكِ مِنَ الْحَقِّ مَا الَّذِي سَارَّكِ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ؟» قَالَتْ «أَمَّا الْآنَ فَنَعَمْ سَارَّنِي أَمَّا مَرَّتُهُ الْأُولَى» فَقَالَ «إِنَّ جِبْرِيلَ كَانَ يُعَارِضُنِي بِالْقُرْآنِ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ مُرَّةً وَإِنَّهُ عَارَضَنِي بِهِ الْعَامَ مَرَّتَيْنِ وَلَا أَرَى الْأَجَلَ إِلَّا قَدِ اقْتَرَبَ فَاتَّقِي اللهَ وَاصْبِرِي» ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا فَاطِمَةُ «أَمَا تَرْضَيْنَ أَنَّكِ سَيِّدَةُ هَذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ أَوْ سَيِّدَةُ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ؟» فَضَحِكْتُ