[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to his wives, "The first of you to follow me is the one with the longest hand." Aisha said, "So, when we gathered after the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , we would stretch out our hands against the wall and see whose hand was the longest. We would not stop doing that until Zainab bint Jahsh, who was a short woman and did not have a longer hand than the rest of us, passed away. Then we realized that the Prophet ﷺ meant by the length of the hand the act of giving charity. She was a woman who used to work with her hands and give charity with it in the cause of Allah."
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لِأَزْوَاجِهِ «أَوَّلُكُنَّ تَتْبَعُنِي أَطْوَلُكُنَّ يَدًا» قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ فَكُنَّا إِذَا اجْتَمَعْنَا بَعْدَ وَفَاةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ نَمُدُّ أَيْدِينَا فِي الْحَائِطِ نَتَطَاوَلُ فَلَمْ نَزَلْ نَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ حَتَّى تُوُفِّيَتْ زَيْنَبُ بِنْتُ جَحْشِ بْنِ رِئَابٍ وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَةً قَصِيرَةً وَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَطْوَلَنَا فَعَرَفْنَا أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَرَادَ بِطُولِ الْيَدِ الصَّدَقَةَ وَكَانَتِ امْرَأَةً صَنَاعًا كَانَتْ تَعْمَلُ بِيَدَيْهَا وَتَتَصَدَّقُ بِهِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ