I was never as jealous of any woman as I was of Khadijah, even though she had died three years before he married me. This was because of how often I heard him mention her, and because his Lord had commanded him to give her glad tidings of a house of pearl in Paradise. Whenever he slaughtered a sheep, he would send portions of it to her close friends.
حدثنا أبو كريب محمد بن العلاء حدثنا أبو أسامة حدثنا هشام عن أبيه
ما غرت على امرأة ما غرت على خديجة ولقد هلكت قبل أن يتزوجني بثلاث سنين لما كنت أسمعه يذكرها ولقد أمره ربه عز وجل أن يبشرها ببيت من قصب في الجنة وإن كان ليذبح الشاة ثم يهديها إلى خلائلها