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 "id": "event/the-choice-of-the-prophets-wives",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "the-choice-of-the-prophets-wives",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Choice Offered to the Prophet's Wives",
  "ar": "تخيير أمهات المؤمنين"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "لمّا طلبت أزواج النبي تحسين العيش مع شظف البيت النبوي، نزلت آية التخيير في سورة الأحزاب: إن كنتن تردن الحياة الدنيا وزينتها فتعالين أمتعكن، وإن كنتن تردن الله ورسوله والدار الآخرة فإن الله أعد للمحسنات منكن أجراً عظيماً؛ فاخترن الله ورسوله جميعاً.",
  "en": "When the Prophet's wives asked for a better standard of living amid the austerity of his household, the verse of choice was revealed (al-Ahzab 28-29): if you desire the life of this world and its adornment, come, I will provide for you and release you graciously; but if you desire Allah and His Messenger and the abode of the Hereafter, Allah has prepared a great reward for the doers of good among you. All of them chose Allah and His Messenger."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time",
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "family-marriage-kinship"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "revelation",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "hijri": "0009~",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "تاريخ تقريبي غير مؤكد؛ بعد استقرار البيت النبوي بالمدينة؛ لم يثبت تاريخ محدد، والسنة تقريبية (الرحيق المختوم ص 478)",
    "sources": [
     "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq"
    ]
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الرحيق المختوم، البيت النبوي، ص 478",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "model": "SWE-2 High",
   "run": "raheeq-batch-24"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/sahih-al-bukhari",
   "source/tanzil-quran"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); mined from al-Raheeq al-Makhtum p. 478"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "طلبت أزواج النبي مرة تحسين العيش مع شظف البيت النبوي، فنزلت آية التخيير في سورة الأحزاب، فاخترن الله ورسوله جميعاً ولم تمل واحدة منهن إلى الدنيا {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص478}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خبر الوقعة",
     "markdown": "كان النبي في شظف من العيش لا يطيقه أحد؛ قال أنس: ما رأى رغيفاً مرققاً حتى لحق بالله، وقالت عائشة: كنا ننظر إلى الهلال ثلاثة أهلة في شهرين وما أوقدت في أبياته نار، وكان عيشهم الأسودين التمر والماء {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص478؛ sahih-al-bukhari}. ومع هذا الشظف لم يصدر من أزواجه ما يوجب العتاب إلا مرة واحدة حسب اقتضاء البشرية، فأنزل الله آية التخيير [[passage/quran-33-28|الأحزاب 28]] و[[passage/quran-33-29|الأحزاب 29]]: «إن كنتن تردن الحياة الدنيا وزينتها فتعالين أمتعكن وأسرحكن سراحاً جميلاً، وإن كنتن تردن الله ورسوله والدار الآخرة فإن الله أعد للمحسنات منكن أجراً عظيماً» {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص478؛ tanzil-quran}. وكان من شرفهن ونبلهن أنهن آثرن الله ورسوله ولم تمل واحدة منهن إلى اختيار الدنيا {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص478}. ولم يقع بينهن ما يقع بين الضرائر مع كثرتهن إلا شيء يسير، فعاتبهن الله في صدر سورة التحريم فلم يعدن له {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص478}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "عرض الله على أمهات المؤمنين أن يخترن بين زينة الدنيا وبين البقاء مع النبي على عيشه الضيق، فاخترن الله ورسوله كلّهن."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/the-choice-of-the-prophets-wives",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The Prophet's wives once asked for an easier life amid the austerity of the Prophet's household; the verse of choice came down in Sura al-Ahzab — and they all chose God and His Messenger, not one of them inclining to the world {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 478}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The account",
     "markdown": "The Prophet lived an austerity no one could bear; Anas said he never saw a fine loaf until he met God, and A'isha said they would watch for three crescents across two months without a fire being lit in his houses — their living was the \"two blacks\", dates and water {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 478; sahih-al-bukhari}. Amid this austerity nothing requiring reproach issued from his wives except once, as human nature requires, so God sent down the verse of choice, [[passage/quran-33-28|al-Ahzab 28]] and [[passage/quran-33-29|al-Ahzab 29]]: \"if you desire the life of this world and its adornment, come — I will provide for you and release you in a fair release; but if you desire God and His Messenger and the Abode of the Hereafter, God has prepared for the good-doers among you a great reward\" {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 478; tanzil-quran}. Of their honour and nobility, they all preferred God and His Messenger and not one inclined to choose the world {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 478}. Nothing of what passes between co-wives occurred among them despite their number but a small thing — God rebuked them at the opening of Sura al-Tahrim and they did not repeat it {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 478}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "God offered the Mothers of the Believers the choice between the world's adornment and remaining with the Prophet in his austere life — and every one of them chose God and His Messenger."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/the-choice-of-the-prophets-wives",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 6,
 "contemporaries": [],
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   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "occurred_at",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
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  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-33-28",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "passage/quran-33-29",
   "type": "revealed_in",
   "inverse": true
  }
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 "related": [
  "event/marriage-of-fatima-and-ali",
  "event/marriage-to-zaynab-bint-jahsh",
  "person/fatima",
  "person/salma-bint-amr",
  "event/death-of-ibrahim",
  "event/death-of-umm-kulthum-bint-muhammad",
  "event/incident-of-the-slander",
  "event/lian-between-uwaymir-and-his-wife"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}