Is Lady Aisha superior or Lady Khadijah?
Khadijah is preferred over Aisha, may Allah be pleased with them both, based on Aisha’s narration that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said about Khadijah: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has not given me a better substitute than her. She believed in me when people disbelieved, she affirmed me when people denied me, she supported me with her wealth when people withheld from me, and Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, blessed me with children through her when He deprived me of children through other women." Some scholars have mentioned that Khadijah had stands at the beginning of Islam that no other woman could match, and Aisha had stands later that no other woman could match. She narrated many hadiths, and Ata' said: "Aisha was the most learned and most knowledgeable of people." Abu Musa said: "We never encountered a problem about which we asked Aisha except that we found knowledge with her." And in the authentic Hadith in the Two Sahihs: "The superiority of Aisha over other women is like the superiority of Tharid over all other foods."
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