Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1464
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الْوَهْبِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ لَوْ كُنْتُ اسْتَقْبَلْتُ مِنَ الأَمْرِ مَا اسْتَدْبَرْتُ مَا غَسَّلَ النَّبِيَّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ غَيْرُ نِسَائِهِ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Wahbi narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Ishaq narrated to us, from Yahya ibn Abbad ibn Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, from his father, from Aishah, who said: ‘If I had known then what I know now, no one would have washed the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) except his wives.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The statement is a counterfactual about who would have washed him; the negation and exception are preserved.