It was reported that the sons of Asmaa bint Umays, Muhammed ibn Ja’far and Muhammed ibn Abu Bakr, were boasting to each other one day, each one of them saying to the other that he was better and that his father was better than the others. ‘Ali, her current husband, was present and asked Asmaa’ to judge between them. The question arises: did ‘Ali want to test her intelligence or did he just want to know whose love and sense of obligation occupied her heart? Here Asma’ demonstrated both her wisdom and her quick wit. She answered without hesitation or discrimination: “I have never seen a young man better than Ja’far, and I have never seen a middle-aged man better than Abu Bakr.” The two boys then went quiet and stopped their bragging. It was then that ‘Ali jokingly asked, “What have you then left for us?” And of course, she loved him dearly too. - Adapted from Women Around the Messenger, by Muhammad Ali Qutb.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 11:30:00 +0000
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