The Messenger of Allah ﷺ loved sweets and honey. After praying the afternoon prayer, he would visit his wives, drawing close to each of them. He once entered upon Hafsah and stayed with her longer than usual. I asked about this and was told that a woman from her people had given her a skin of honey as a gift, and she had served the Messenger of Allah ﷺ some of it as a drink.I said, "By Allah, we shall devise a plan against him."I mentioned this to Sawdah and said, "When he comes to you, he will draw near you. Say to him, 'Messenger of Allah, have you eaten maghafir?' He will say no. Then say, 'What is this smell?'" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ found it very distressing for any odor to be detected from him. "He will say, 'Hafsah gave me a drink of honey.' Then say to him, 'The bees must have fed on urfut trees.' I shall say the same, and you say it too, Safiyyah."When he entered upon Sawdah, she said, "By the One besides whom there is no god, I almost blurted out to him what you told me to say while he was still at the door, out of fear of you. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ drew near, I said, 'Messenger of Allah, have you eaten maghafir?'He replied, "No."I said, "Then what is this smell?"He said, "Hafsah gave me a drink of honey."I said, "The bees must have fed on urfut trees."When he came to me, I said the same thing to him, and when he entered upon Safiyyah, she said the same.Then when he entered upon Hafsah, she said, "Messenger of Allah, shall I give you some of it to drink?"He said, "I have no need of it."Sawdah said, "Glory be to Allah, we have deprived him of it!"I said to her, "Be quiet."
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كان رسول الله ﷺ يحب الحلواء ويحب العسل وكان إذا صلى العصر أجاز على نسائه فيدنو منهن فدخل على حفصة فاحتبس عندها أكثر مما كان يحتبس فسألت عن ذلك فقال لي أهدت لها امرأة من قومها عكة عسل فسقت رسول الله ﷺ منه شربة فقلت أما والله لنحتالن له فذكرت ذلك لسودة قلت إذا دخل عليك فإنه سيدنو منك فقولي له يا رسول الله أكلت مغافير فإنه سيقول لا فقولي له ما هذه الريح وكان رسول الله ﷺ يشتد عليه أن يوجد منه الريح فإنه سيقول سقتني حفصة شربة عسل فقولي له جرست نحله العرفط وسأقول ذلك وقوليه أنت يا صفية فلما دخل على سودة قلت تقول سودة والذي لا إله إلا هو لقد كدت أن أبادره بالذي قلت لي وإنه لعلى الباب فرقا منك فلما دنا رسول الله ﷺ قلت يا رسول الله أكلت مغافير قال لا قلت فما هذه الريح قال سقتني حفصة شربة عسل قلت جرست نحله العرفط فلما دخل علي قلت له مثل ذلك ودخل على صفية فقالت له مثل ذلك فلما دخل على حفصة قالت له يا رسول الله ألا أسقيك منه قال لا حاجة لي به قالت تقول سودة سبحان الله لقد حرمناه قالت قلت لها اسكتي