Volume 4, Book 56, Number 708:
Narrated ‘Urwa bin Az-Zubair:
‘Abdullah bin Az-Zubair was the most beloved person to ‘Aisha excluding the Prophet and Abu
Bakr, and he in his turn, was the most devoted to her, ‘Aisha used not to withhold the money given to
her by Allah, but she used to spend it in charity. (‘Abdullah) bin AzZubair said, ” ‘Aisha should be
stopped from doing so.” (When ‘Aisha heard this), she said protestingly, “Shall I be stopped from do –
ing so? I vow that I will never talk to ‘Abdullah bin Az-Zubair.” On that, Ibn Az-Zubair asked some
people from Quraish and particularly the two uncles of Allah’s Apostle to intercede with her, but she
refused (to talk to him). Az-Zuhriyun, the uncles of the Prophet, including ‘Abdur-Rahman bin Al-
Aswad bin ‘Abd Yaghuth and Al-Miswar bin Makhrama said to him, “When we ask for the permis –
sion to visit her, enter her house along with us (without taking her leave).” He did accordingly (and
she accepted their intercession). He sent her ten slaves whom she manumitted as an expiation for
(not keeping) her vow. ‘Aisha manumitted more slaves for the same purpose till she manumitted
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forty slaves. She said, “I wish I had specified what I would have done in case of not fulfilling my vow
when I made the vow, so that I might have done it easily.”