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Is there a ḥadīth stating that a woman who becomes a widow with young children and chooses to raise them over remarrying will sit with the Prophet (peace be upon him) in Paradise, or that she will race him into it?

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The aforementioned Hadith might be the one narrated in Musnad Abi Ya'la, from Abu Hurairah, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "I am the first for whom the door of Paradise will be opened, but a woman will come and try to precede me. So I will say to her: 'What is the matter with you? Who are you?' She will say: 'I am a woman who remained for my orphans.'" Its chain of narration is good.

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