English translation
6972. Narrated 'Aishah رضي الله عنها Allāh's Messenger ﷺ used to like sweet edible things and also used to like honey, and whenever he finished the Asr prayer, he used to visit his wives and stay with them. Once, he visited Hafsa and remained with her longer than the period he used to stay, so I enquired about it. It was said to me, "A woman from her tribe gave her a leather-skin containing honey as a present, and she gave some of it to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ to drink." I said, "By Allāh, we will play a trick on him." So I mentioned the story to Sauda (the wife of the Prophet ﷺ) and said to her, "When he enters upon you, he will come near to you whereupon you should say to him, 'O Allāh's Messenger! Have you eaten Maghāfir?'(1) He will say, 'No.' Then you say to him, 'What is this bad smell?' And it would be very hard on Allāh's Messenger ﷺ that a bad smell should be found on his body. He will say, 'Hafsa has given me a drink of honey.' Then you should say to him, 'Its bees must have sucked from the Al-'Urfut (a foul smelling flower).' I too, will tell him the same. And you, O Ṣāfiyya, say the same." So when the Prophet ﷺ entered upon Sauda. Sauda said, "By Him except Whom none has the right to be worshipped, I was about to say to him what you had told me to say while he was still at the gate, because of fear from you. But when Allāh's Messenger ﷺ came near to me, I said to him, 'O Allāh's Messenger! Have you eaten Maghāfir?' He replied, 'No.' I said, 'What about this smell?' He said, 'Hafsa has given me a drink of honey.' I said, 'Its bees must have sucked Al-'Urfut from'." When he entered upon me, I told him the same and when he entered upon Ṣāfiyya, she, too, told him the same. So when he visited Hafsa again, she said to him, "O Allāh's Messenger! Shall I give you a drink of it (honey)?" He said, "I have no desire for it." Sauda said, "Subhān Allāh! We have deprived him of it (honey)." I said to her, "Be quiet!"