The Messenger of Allah ﷺ loved sweets and honey. After praying the afternoon prayer, he would go around to his wives and draw close to them. He went in to Hafsa and stayed with her longer than he usually stayed. I asked about that, and I was told that a woman from her people had given her a small skin of honey as a gift, and she had given the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a drink from it.I said, "By Allah, we shall devise a plan for him." I mentioned this to Sawda and said, "When he comes in to you, he will draw close to you. Say to him, 'Messenger of Allah, have you eaten maghafir?' He will say to you, 'No.' Then say to him, 'What is this smell?'" The Messenger of Allah ﷺ found it intensely distressing for an unpleasant smell to be detected on him. "He will say to you, 'Hafsa gave me a drink of honey.' Then say to him, 'Its bees must have fed on the urfut tree.' I shall say the same to him, and you, Safiyya, say it too."When he went in to Sawda, she later said, "By Him 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 close, she said, "Messenger of Allah, have you eaten maghafir?"He said, "No."She said, "Then what is this smell?"He said, "Hafsa gave me a drink of honey."She said, "Its bees must have fed on the urfut tree."When he came in to me, I said the same thing to him. Then he went in to Safiyya, and she said the same. When he went in to Hafsa, she said, "Messenger of Allah, shall I not give you a drink of it?"He said, "I have no need of it."Sawda said, "Glory be to Allah, by Allah we have deprived him of it."I said to her, "Be quiet."Abu Ishaq Ibrahim said, Hasan bin Bishr bin Qasim narrated to us, Abu Usama narrated to us with this same wording.
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كان رسول الله ﷺ يحب الحلواء والعسل فكان إذا صلى العصر دار على نسائه فيدنو منهن فدخل على حفصة فاحتبس عندها أكثر مما كان يحتبس فسألت عن ذلك فقيل لي أهدت لها امرأة من قومها عكة من عسل فسقت رسول الله ﷺ منه شربة فقلت أما والله لنحتالن له فذكرت ذلك لسودة وقلت إذا دخل عليك فإنه سيدنو منك فقولي له يا رسول الله أكلت مغافير فإنه سيقول لك لا فقولي له ما هذه الريح وكان رسول الله ﷺ يشتد عليه أن يوجد منه الريح فإنه سيقول لك سقتني حفصة شربة عسل فقولي له جرست نحله العرفط وسأقول ذلك له وقوليه أنت يا صفية فلما دخل على سودة قالت تقول سودة والذي لا إله إلا هو لقد كدت أن أبادئه بالذي قلت لي وإنه لعلى الباب فرقا منك فلما دنا رسول الله ﷺ قالت يا رسول الله أكلت مغافير قال لا قالت فما هذه الريح قال سقتني حفصة شربة عسل قالت جرست نحله العرفط فلما دخل علي قلت له مثل ذلك ثم دخل على صفية فقالت بمثل ذلك فلما دخل على حفصة قالت يا رسول الله ألا أسقيك منه قال لا حاجة لي به قالت تقول سودة سبحان الله والله لقد حرمناه قالت قلت لها اسكتي قال أبو إسحق إبراهيم حدثنا الحسن بن بشر بن القاسم حدثنا أبو أسامة بهذا سواء