Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 1048
حَدَّثَنَا مَخْلَدٌ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا مُبَشِّرُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي غَنِيَّةَ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَسْمَاءَ ابْنَةِ يَزِيدَ الأَنْصَارِيَّةِ، مَرَّ بِيَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَأَنَا فِي جِوَارِ أَتْرَابٍ لِي، فَسَلَّمَ عَلَيْنَا وَقَالَ: إِيَّاكُنَّ وَكُفْرَ الْمُنْعِمِينَ، وَكُنْتُ مِنْ أَجْرَئِهِنَّ عَلَى مَسْأَلَتِهِ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، وَمَا كُفْرُ الْمُنْعِمِينَ؟ قَالَ: لَعَلَّ إِحْدَاكُنَّ تَطُولُ أَيْمَتُهَا مِنْ أَبَوَيْهَا، ثُمَّ يَرْزُقُهَا اللَّهُ زَوْجًا، وَيَرْزُقُهَا مِنْهُ وَلَدًا، فَتَغْضَبُ الْغَضْبَةَ فَتَكْفُرُ فَتَقُولُ: مَا رَأَيْتُ مِنْكَ خَيْرًا قَطُّ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Asma bint Yazid al-Ansariyya said: The Prophet ﷺ passed by while I was among some of my peers. He greeted us and said, “Beware of ingratitude toward those who bestow blessings.” I was the boldest of them in asking him, so I said, “Messenger of Allah, what is ingratitude toward those who bestow blessings?” He replied: “Perhaps one of you will remain unmarried for a long time with her parents. Then Allah will provide her with a husband and children through him. She then becomes angry and ungrateful and says, ‘I have never seen any good from you at all.’”
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The phrase تَطُولُ أَيْمَتُهَا مِنْ أَبَوَيْهَا describes a woman remaining without a husband while with her parents.
فِي جِوَارِ أَتْرَابٍ لِي
The Arabic says she was among her peers; it does not describe them as enslaved or as belonging to her.
Should the witness’s “slavegirls belonging to me” be corrected to “peers”?