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nasai-kubra:8858 – Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > al-Layth > Yaḥyá > ʿUbādah b. al-Walīd b. ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit > ʿĀʾishah

"I looked for the Messenger of Allah and I put my hand on his hair." He said: "Your Shaitan has come to you." I said: "Don't you have a Shaitan?" He said: "Yes, but Allah helped me with him, so he submitted." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 3960)

الكبرى للنسائي:٨٨٥٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ يَحْيَى عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ قَالَتْ

الْتَمَسْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فَأَدْخَلْتُ يَدِي فِي شَعْرِهِ فَقَالَ «قَدْ جَاءَكِ شَيْطَانُكِ» فَقُلْتُ أَمَا لَكَ شَيْطَانٌ؟ قَالَ «بَلَى وَلَكِنَّ اللهَ أَعَانَنِي عَلَيْهِ فَأَسْلَمَ»

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nasai:3960 – Qutaybah > al-Layth > Yaḥyá > Ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī > ʿUbādah b. al-Walīd b. ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit > ʿĀʾishah

"I looked for the Messenger of Allah and I put my hand on his hair." He said: "Your Shaitan has come to you." I said: "Don't you have a Shaitan?" He said: "Yes, but Allah helped me with him, so he submitted."

النسائي:٣٩٦٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ يَحْيَى هُوَ ابْنُ سَعِيدٍ الأَنْصَارِيُّ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ بْنِ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ

قَالَتِ الْتَمَسْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَأَدْخَلْتُ يَدِي فى شَعْرِهِ فَقَالَ قَدْ جَاءَكِ شَيْطَانُكِ فَقُلْتُ أَمَا لَكَ شَيْطَانٌ فَقَالَ بَلَى وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ أَعَانَنِي عَلَيْهِ فَأَسْلَمَ