إِلَّا عَجُوزًۭا فِى ٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ
Illaa 'ajoozan fil ghaabireen
Except his wife among those who remained [with the evildoers].
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Lessons from past peoples
37:135Ayah 1182
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except an old woman who was among those who stayed behind in other words those who stayed behind in the chastisement.
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"All of your wives have a Kunyah except me." He said: "You are Umm Abdullah".
" Those who are married and those who are not married." There is also an addition in it:" I spare her until she is all right."
`Uthman said that on the day of the battle of Uhud, none remained with the Prophet (ﷺ) but Talha and
Sa`d.
No woman of Banu Qurayzah was killed except one. She was with me, talking and laughing on her back and belly (extremely), while the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was killing her people with the swords. Suddenly a man called her name: Where is so-and-so? She said: I I asked: What is the matter with you? She said: I did a new act. She said: The man took her and beheaded her. She said: I will not forget that she was laughing extremely although she knew that she would be killed.
That he visited Al-Hajjaj (bin Yusuf). Al-Hajjaj said, "O son of Al-Akwa`! You have turned on your
heels (i.e., deserted Islam) by staying (in the desert) with the bedouins." Salama replied, "No, but
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) allowed me to stay with the bedouin in the desert." Narrated Yazid bin Abi Ubaid:
When `Uthman bin `Affan was killed (martyred), Salama bin Al-Akwa` went out to a place called Ar-
Rabadha and married there and begot children, and he stayed there till a few nights before his death
when he came to Medina.
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