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?
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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