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Is it true that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to call Aisha "Humaira," and what is the evidence for that?

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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, called Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, "Ya Humaira" in one authentic hadith, which was when the Abyssinians entered the mosque playing, and he asked her if she liked to watch them. As for the rest of the narrations that include this word, they are weak or fabricated, the most famous of which is the hadith of "water, salt, and fire," which is very weak. "Humaira" is the diminutive of "Hamra" (red), and it means white, as Aisha was fair-skinned, and Arabs would call white "red" out of dislike for the word "white" which resembles leprosy.

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