Muhammad: Seal of the Prophets — Page 100
MUHAMMAD : SEAL OF THE PROPHETS 100 affectionately. He went back and continued his efforts as directed by the Holy Prophet and they bore fruit some years later. Tufail then migrated with seventy families of his tribe to Medina. This happened when the Holy Prophet was campaigning against Khai bar. Hazrat Abu Hurairah, who became a well - known narrator of hadith , was of Daus and came to Medina with them. The Holy Prophet, on his return from Taif, was leading a lonely life. He supplicated God Almighty that He should guide him in the matter of his marriage, so that he might choose rightly and wisely. A short while later he saw the angel Gabriel in his dream who presented him with a green silk kerchief and said, This is your wife in this world and the next. ’ The Holy Prophet observed that the kerchief bore a likeness of Aisha, daughter of Abu Bakr. Sometime later, Khulah, daughter of Hakim and wife of Usman bin Maz’un, came to him and asked him, ‘Messenger of Allah, why do you not marry?’ He inquired, ‘Whom shall I marry?’ She submitted, ‘If you wish, you can marry a virgin, and if you prefer, you ca n marry a widow. ’ He asked, ‘Who are they?’ Khulah submitted, ‘The virgin is the daughter of your close friend, Abu Bakr; and the widow is Sudah, daughter of Zamaa and widow of Sakran bin Amr. ’ On this, the Holy Prophet asked her to find out about both. Ac cordingly, Khulah first approached Abu Bakr and his wife, Um Ruman, and mentioned the matter to them. They were surprised and wondered whether the match was permissible as Abu Bakr looked upon the Holy Prophet as his brother. On this being mentioned to the Holy Prophet, he pointed out that a spiritual relationship was no bar to marriage.