Aisha Was Bewitched and Sold Her Slave Girl
Malik told us, Abu al-Rijal Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman told us, on the authority of his mother, Umrah bint Abd al-Rahman: That Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had freed a slave girl of hers after she had left him. Then, after that, Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, complained for as long as Allah willed that she complain. Then, a Sindhi man came to her and said to her: You have been bewitched. Aisha said to him: Woe to you! Who has bewitched me? He said: A woman of such and such description. So he described her and said: There is now a boy in her lap who has urinated. Aisha said: Call for me so-and-so, a slave girl who used to serve her. They found her in the house of their neighbors who had a boy in her lap. She said: Now, so that I may wash away the urine of this boy. So, she washed him and then came back. Aisha said to her: Have you bewitched me? She said: Yes. She said: Why? She said: I wanted to be freed. She said: By Allah, you will never be freed . Then Aisha ordered her nephew to sell her to the Bedouins who would mistreat her. She said: Then buy me a slave with her price and free her. Umrah said: So Aisha, may God be pleased with her, stayed for as long as God willed. Then she saw in a dream that she should wash herself from three wells that feed each other, and you will be healed. Ismail bin Abi Bakr and Abd al-Rahman bin Saad bin Zararah entered upon Aisha, and Umm Aisha mentioned what she had seen, so they went to a canal and found three wells feeding each other, so they drew three buckets of water from each well until they filled the bucket with all of them, then they brought that water to Aisha, so she washed herself in it and was cured.
Every person uses his intelligence in his actions as long as he has freedom of opinion and action
. Lady Hafsa, may God be pleased with her, saw that it was better to kill the witch, and this is better for the people who were spared her corruption, but Lady Aisha, may God be pleased with her, saw that killing the witch was mercy for the witch, so Lady Aisha knew that the purpose of magic was to free her ( I loved to free her ), so Lady Aisha, may God be pleased with her, saw that she should not give this witch her freedom through her life in this world or her freedom by killing her because of magic because she is considered an apostate, so she said: By God, you will never be freed .
Therefore, Lady Aisha, may God be pleased with her, saw that she should sell this slave girl and with her price buy another slave girl, then she freed her.
The fate and destiny that God Almighty has arranged was to free a slave girl because of this magic, so why did we look at the magic and the sale of the slave girl and not look at the reward that Lady Aisha, may God be pleased with her, did by purchasing a slave girl and then freeing her at the same moment and the state of happiness that may appear on the face of a woman for whom God has decreed freedom?