This is why
they suggested to him that he ate Maghafir, because it causes a bad odor. When
he said,
(No, I had some honey.) They said that the bees ate from a tree that is called
Al-`Urfut, which has Maghafir gum, suggesting that this is the reason behind the
bad odor they claimed was coming from him.
The latter narration,
collected
through `Urwah from `A'ishah, mentions that it was Hafsah who gave the Prophet
the honey [
Mariah was staying at her house].
In another narration collected from
`Ubayd bin `Umayr, from `A'ishah, it was Zaynab bint Jahsh [
Mohammed's adopted son wife now Mohammed's ] who gave the
honey to the
Prophet ,
while `A'ishah and Hafsah were the
plotters. Allah knows best. Some
might say that they were two separate incidents. However, it is not likely that
the Ayat were revealed about both incidents [
Bear this in
mind ], if indeed
they were two separate incidents.
Allah knows best. A Hadith that Imam Ahmad collected in the Musnad mentions that
[
this becomes very interesting this is the Bukhari hadith from vol 3
number 648
that mentions Maria]`A'ishah and Hafsah were the plotters. Imam Ahmad
recorded
that Ibn `Abbas said, "
I was eager to ask `Umar about the two
ladies among the
wives of the Prophet , about whom Allah said,
(If you two turn in repentance to Allah your hearts are indeed so inclined
Then I performed Hajj along with `Umar, and on our way back from Hajj he went
aside (to relieve himself). I also went aside along with him carrying a tumbler
of water. When he finished and returned, I poured water on his hands from the
tumbler and he performed ablution. I said, `O Commander of the faithful! Who
were the two ladies among the wives of the Prophet , to whom Allah said,
(If you two turn in repentance to Allah your hearts are indeed so inclined)'
`Umar said, `I am astonished at your question, O Ibn `Abbas.''' - Az-Zuhri (a
subnarrator) said that `Umar did not like the question [ask yourself why?], but
he still answered it, saying that they were `A'ishah and Hafsah.
"Then `Umar went on relating the story and said, `We, the people of Quraysh,
used to have authority over our women. But when we came to live with the Ansar,
we noticed that the Ansari women had the upper hand over their men, so our women
started acquiring the habits of the Ansari women. At that time, I was residing
at the house of Umayyah bin Zayd, in Al-`Awali. Once I got angry with my wife,
and she talked back to me; I disliked her answering me back. She said, `Why do
you dislike me talking back to you By Allah, the wives of the Prophet talk back
to him, and some of them may not speak with him for the whole day, until
nightfall.' Then I went to Hafsah and asked her, `Do you talk back to Allah's
Messenger' She said, `Yes.' I asked, `Does any of you keep Allah's Messenger
angry all day long, until night' She replied, `Yes.'
I said, `Whoever among you does this is a ruined, losing person! Doesn't she
fear that Allah may get angry for the anger of His Messenger and, thus, she will
be ruined Don't ask Allah's Messenger too many things, and don't retort him in
any case. Demand from me whatever you like, and don't be tempted to imitate your
neighbor, for she is more beautiful than you, and more beloved to Allah's
Messenger than you.' He meant `A'ishah.
I, and an Ansari neighbor of mine used to visit the Prophet in turns. He used to
go one day, and I another day. When I went I would bring him
the news of what had happened that day regarding the revelation and when he
went, he used to do the same for me. In those days it was rumored that the
Ghassan (tribe) were preparing their horses to invade us. My companion went and
returned to us at night and knocked at my door. I came out to him. He said that
a grave thing happened. I asked him, `What is it Have Ghassan come' He replied
that it was worse and
more serious than that,
adding that Allah's Messenger had
divorced all his
wives. I said, `Hafsah is a ruined loser! I expected that would
happen some
day.' So I dressed myself and I performed the Subh prayer. I went to Hafsah and
found her weeping. I asked her, `Has Allah's Messenger divorced all of you' She
replied, `I don't know. He is there alone in the upper room.' I went to the
upper room and asked a black slave of the Prophet to ask for his permission to
see me, and the boy went in and then
came out saying, `I mentioned you to him and he remained silent.' I then went
out and came to the Minbar and found a group of people around it and some of
them were weeping. I sat with them for some time, but could not endure the
situation. So, I requested to the boy, `Will you get the permission for `Umar'
He went in and then came out saying, `I mentioned you to him, but he did not
reply.' So, I went to Minbar and sat
with the people who were sitting by the Minbar, but I could not bear the
situation, so I went to the boy again and said, `Will you get the permission for
`Umar' He went in and brought the same reply as before. When I was leaving,
behold, he called me saying, `Allah's Messenger has granted you permission.' So,
I entered the Prophet's room, greeted him with the Salam and saw him lying on a
mat without bedding on it, and the mat had left its mark on the body of the
Prophet.
I said, `Have you divorced your wives, O Allah's Messenger' He raised his eyes
to me and replied no. I said, `Allahu Akbar. O Allah's Messenger! We, the people
of Quraysh used to have the upper hand over our women.
But when we came to Al-Madinah, we found a people whose women had the upper hand
over them. Our women started learning this behavior from them. Once, I got angry
with my wife, and she talked back to me. I disliked that behavior from her and
she said, `Why do you dislike that I talk back to you By Allah, the Prophet's
wives talk back to him and one of them would ignore him the whole day, until the
night.' I said to her,
`Whoever does this among them is the ruined loser! Does she feel safe from Allah
getting angry with her on account of His Messenger's anger In that case, she
would be ruined.' On that the Prophet smiled. I then said,
`O Allah's Messenger! I went to Hafsah and said to her, `Do not be tempted to
imitate your companion (`A'ishah) for she is more beautiful than you and more
beloved to the Prophet.' The Prophet smiled again. When I saw him smiling, I
said, `Does the Messenger feel calm' He said,
`Yes.' So, I sat down and cast a glance at the room, and by Allah, I couldn't
see anything of importance, except three hides. I said, `Invoke Allah, O Allah's
Messenger, to make your followers prosperous, for the Persians and the
Byzantines have been made prosperous and given worldly luxuries, even though
they do not worship Allah.' The Prophet sat upright and said,
(O Ibn Al-Khattab! Do you have any doubt These people have been given rewards of
their good deeds in this world only.) I asked the Prophet , `Please beg Allah's
forgiveness for me, O Allah's Messenger.'
The Prophet swore that
he would not go
to his wives for one month, because of his severe anger towards them
[
RIGHT
HERE is where your tafsir further insults the intelligence of it's readers and
deviates from the hadith, at this stage in the hadith this is what the hadith
says:"
Bukhari vol 3 648 "...
The Prophet
did not go to his wives because of
the secret which Hafsa had disclosed to 'Aisha, and he said that he would not go
to his wives for one month as he was angry with them when Allah admonished him
(for his oath that he would not approach Maria..."
if they had bothered to
include this part of the hadith it would have opened a can of worms the reader
would have known they were being taken for a ride, the prophet was angry because
Hafsa had told Aisha he slept with Hafsa's maid Maria/Mariyah/Mariah
]
His wives had confronted him about it he had threatened them with
divorce, his
followers glossed over it and fabricated elaborate hadiths about honey and
citrus fruits to cover the obvious imperfection in the prophet's
character.
Imagine for a second a husband tells his wife her father wants to see her and
while
she is away he sleeps with her maid, his wife comes back quickly when she finds
out her father doesn't want to see her, and finds her husband in bed with her
maid, she
naturally goes hysterical
the husband begs her to be quiet and
not to tell anybody and
promises her it won't happen again (
this is the oath Mohammed
was talking
about), she tells his other wife who in turn tells all the rest and they
make a
scene,
his followers in their desperation to venerate him as
whiter than white
hush hush the incident and even go as far as to fabricate hadiths to exonerate
their prophet. To add insult to injury to Mohammed's wives he even
had his god chide him for abstaining from sleeping with Maria (
"until Allah
the Exalted and Most Honored censured him".), and to carry on the
shenanigans with her,
threatening his wives with divorce for
making him deny himself the right to fornicate.] Al-Bukhari, [
The tafsir didn't
even give you the Bukhari hadiths so you don't check it out for
yourself ]
