How authentic and meaningful is the hadith: "Would that I knew which one of you, the rider of the shaggy camel, will emerge and be barked at by the dogs of Hawʾab, and many will be slain to her right and to her left, then she will escape after almost being captured"?
When Aisha reached the water of "Al-Haw'ab" on her way to reconcile the Muslims after the killing of Uthman, dogs barked at her. She then recalled the Prophet's (peace be upon him) narration about one of his wives, at whom the dogs of Al-Haw'ab would bark, and that there would be casualties around her, followed by her survival. Aisha resolved to turn back, but she was pressed to continue her journey. Aisha later regretted her departure, as her goal was reconciliation, and she did not intend to fight. Rather, the fighting occurred without her choice, nor the choice of Ali, Talha, and Zubair, because Uthman's killers feared that the parties would agree to punish them, so they initiated the fighting.
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