The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called for Barirah and asked, "Barirah, have you ever seen anything from her that raised your suspicion?"Barirah replied, "No, by the One who sent you with the truth. I have never seen anything in her that I could hold against her, except that she is a young girl who falls asleep over the dough, and the household sheep comes and eats it."At the end of the account, it states, The Messenger of Allah ﷺ also questioned Zaynab bint Jahsh about my situation. He asked, "Zaynab, what do you know? What have you seen?"She answered, "Messenger of Allah, I protect my hearing and my sight. By Allah, I have known nothing of her but good."Ayesha said, "She was the one among the wives of the Prophet who used to vie with me, but Allah safeguarded her through her piety."
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فدعا رسول الله ﷺ بريرة، فقال: يا بريرة، هل رأيت فيها شيئا يريبك؟ فقالت بريرة: لا والذي بعثك بالحق، إن رأيت منها أمرا أغمصه عليها قط أكثر من أنها جارية حديثة السن، تنام عن العجين، فتأتي الداجن فتأكله. وجاء في آخره: وكان رسول الله ﷺ يسأل زينب بنت جحش عن أمري، فقال: يا زينب، ما علمت ما رأيت؟ فقالت: يا رسول الله، أحمي سمعي وبصري، والله ما علمت عليها إلا خيرا، قالت (أى عائشة): وهي التي كانت تساميني، فعصمها الله بالورع.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Testimonies (2661), and Muslim in the Book of Repentance (2770), from Zuhri, from Urwa bin Zubayr, Saeed bin Musayab, Alqama bin Waqqas Laythi, and Ubaydullah bin Abdullah bin Utba, all of them from Ayesha , the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, regarding when the people of the slander said what they said about her, and Allah declared her innocent of it, and she related the story of the slander in full.