Hadith No: 13
Ibn al-Jawzi - al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Umam wa'l-Muluk - Then the year 36 entered, the appointment of Ibn Abbas over Basra and the appointment of Ziyad to collect taxes
Volume: (5) - Page Number: (95/96)
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- Abu Mansur al-Qazzaz narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Thabit narrated to us, saying: Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Duqaq narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn Osman al-Adami narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Suwayd narrated to us, saying: Sufyan ibn Muhammad al-Musayi narrated to us, saying: Yusuf ibn Asbat narrated to us, saying: Sufyan al-Thawri
narrated from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, who said: "Aisha never mentioned her journey except that she would cry until her headscarf was soaked, and she would say, 'I wish I had been forgotten, undistinguished.'"- Zahir ibn Tahir narrated to us, saying: Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Bayhaqi narrated to us, saying: Abu Abdullah al-Hakim narrated to us, saying: Layth ibn Tahir al-Munadi narrated to me, saying: Muhammad ibn Ya'qub narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Rafii narrated to us, saying: Abdullah ibn Khalad narrated to us, saying: Ubaydullah ibn Umar al-Ruqai narrated to us, from Isma'il ibn Abi Khalid, from Qais ibn Abi Hazim, from Aisha (ra), that she used to say: "If I could have anticipated what would happen,
I would have preferred not to have emerged against Ali (ra) rather than having ten children from the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), all of whom were like Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham."