جَاءَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَدَخَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَ هُوَ فِي مَنْزِلِ حَفْصَةَ وَ الْمَرْأَةُ مُتَلَبِّسَةٌ مُتَمَشِّطَةٌ فَدَخَلَتْ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ الْمَرْأَةَ لَا تَخْطُبُ الزَّوْجَ وَ أَنَا امْرَأَةٌ أَيِّمٌ لَا زَوْجَ لِي مُنْذُ دَهْرٍ وَ لَا وَلَدَ فَهَلْ لَكَ مِنْ حَاجَةٍ فَإِنْ تَكُ فَقَدْ وَهَبْتُ نَفْسِي لَكَ إِنْ قَبِلْتَنِي فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) خَيْراً وَ دَعَا لَهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا أُخْتَ الْأَنْصَارِ جَزَاكُمُ اللَّهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ خَيْراً فَقَدْ نَصَرَنِي رِجَالُكُمْ وَ رَغِبَتْ فِيَّ نِسَاؤُكُمْ فَقَالَتْ لَهَا حَفْصَةُ مَا أَقَلَّ حَيَاءَكِ وَ أَجْرَأَكِ وَ أَنْهَمَكِ لِلرِّجَالِ فَقَالَ لَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) كُفِّي عَنْهَا يَا حَفْصَةُ فَإِنَّهَا خَيْرٌ مِنْكِ رَغِبَتْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ فَلُمْتِهَا وَ عَيَّبْتِهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ لِلْمَرْأَةِ انْصَرِفِي رَحِمَكِ اللَّهُ فَقَدْ أَوْجَبَ اللَّهُ لَكِ الْجَنَّةَ لِرَغْبَتِكِ فِيَّ وَ تَعَرُّضِكِ لِمَحَبَّتِي وَ سُرُورِي وَ سَيَأْتِيكِ أَمْرِي إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ امْرَأَةً مُؤْمِنَةً إِنْ وَهَبَتْ نَفْسَها لِلنَّبِيِّ إِنْ أَرادَ النَّبِيُّ أَنْ يَسْتَنْكِحَها خالِصَةً لَكَ مِنْ دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ قَالَ فَأَحَلَّ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ هِبَةَ الْمَرْأَةِ نَفْسَهَا لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ لَا يَحِلُّ ذَلِكَ لِغَيْرِهِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Raib, from Muhammad Bin Qays, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘A woman from the Helpers came over to Rasool-Allah<sup>asws</sup> and he<sup>as</sup> was in the house of Hafsa, and the woman had dressed up and combed her hair. So she came to Rasool-Allah<sup>asws</sup> and said, ‘O Rsool-Allah<sup>asws</sup>! The women do not tend to propose to the husband, and I am a woman who is widowed and have not married since a long time, and do not have children. So is there a need for you<sup>asws</sup>, for if there is, so I have gifted myself to you<sup>asws</sup>, if you accept me’. So Rasool-Allah<sup>asws</sup> said good things to her and supplicated for her, then said: ‘O sister of the Helpers. May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Recompnse you with goodness from Rasool-Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, for your men have helped me<sup>asws</sup>, and your womenfolk have desired me<sup>asws</sup>’. So Hafsa said to her, ‘How little is your shame, and how audacious of you and your coveting the men!’ So Rasool-Allah<sup>asws</sup> said to her: ‘Restrain from her, O Hafsa, for she is better than you in desiring Rasool-Allah<sup>asws</sup>, but you are blaming her and faulting her’. Then he<sup>asws</sup> said to the woman of the Helpers: ‘May Allah<sup>azwj</sup> have Mercy on you, for Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Obligated the Paradise for you due to your desire for me and your being pleased with my<sup>asws</sup> love and my delight. My<sup>asws</sup> order will come to you, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Willing’. Thus, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Revealed <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:33#h50"><a href="/books/quran:33#h50">[33:50]</a></a> and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to marry her - specially for you, apart from Believers</span>. He<sup>asws</sup>: ‘Thus, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Permitted the woman gifting herself to Rasool-Allah<sup>asws</sup>, and that is not Permissible for others’.
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