Brief Biography of Ayesha Bint Abu Bakr

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Taken from Siyaar ‘Alaam an-Nubalaa & Thahdheeb at thahdheeb

Ayesha daughter of Abu Bakr as-Sideeq (Radi Allaahu anhum)
She is Ayesha daughter of Abu Bakr as-Sideeq (Radi Allaahu anhum)- wife of the Messenger of Allaah, after Khadija -Radi Allaahu anha- had died, the Angel Jibra’eel had shown her to the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) in his dream before he married her, she was 18 years of age when the Messenger of Allaah died. She died 59 A.H. On the 17th Ramadan, Abu Huraira (Radi Allaahu anhu) buried her.

She was the Mother of the Believers, as-Siddeqqah -Radi Allaahu anha. Umar (Radi Allaahu anhu) asked the Messenger of Allaah, ‘who is the most beloved of people to you?’ he replied: ‘Ayesha’, then he asked, ‘from amongst the men?’ he replied: ‘Her father.’

Ash-Shaabee said : when Masrooq would narrate on Ayesha to us, he would say : ‘I was told by the truthful one, daughter of the truthful one, the beloved of the most beloved to Allaah, who’s innocence was established from above the seven heavens.’

Az-Zuhri said: ‘If the knowledge of Ayesha was gathered against the knowledge of all the other wives of the Messenger of Allaah and all the women, then Ayesha’s knowledge would remain unsurpassed.’