English translation
[7022] 58 - (...) It was narrated that Aishah said: "When the rumours spread about me, I did not know about it. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ stood up to deliver a Khutbah. He recited the Tashahhud and he praised Allāh as He deserves to be praised, then he said: 'Advise me with regard to some people who have made false charges against my wife, for by Allāh I do not know anything bad about my wife at all. And they have made false charges concerning a man about whom, by Allāh, I do not know anything bad at all, and who never entered my house except when I was present, and I was never absent on a journey but he was absent with me..." And he quoted the Hadīth, in which it says: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ entered my house and asked my slave woman, and she said: 'By Allāh, I do not know of any fault in her except that she falls asleep and the sheep comes in and eats her dough - or her yeast'" - Hishām was not sure. "Some of his Companions scolded her and said: 'Tell the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ the truth,' and they referred bluntly to this matter. She said: 'Subhān-Allāh, by Allāh I do not know anything about her but what the goldsmith knows about a piece of pure gold.'" "News of that reached the man concerning whom these things were being said, and he said: 'Subhān-Allāh, by Allāh I have never unveiled any woman.'" ‘Aishah said: “He was killed as a martyr in the cause of Allāh, Glorified and Exalted is He.” It is also narrated that those who spoke of it were Mistah, Hamnah and Hassān. As for the hypocrite ‘Abdullāh bin Ubayy, he is the one who collected false rumours and spread them further. And he is the one who took the lead in that, along with Hamnah.