"Have you heard that the Dajjal has made his appearance!?"

She [Saudah/Sawdah] was a senior wife of Allah's Messenger, and she was very fearful of the Dajjal [anti-christ].

Once she was coming to Sayyidah Aisha and Sayyidah Hafsah, both of them knew her weakness and said to her in a jovial mood, "Have you heard that the Dajjal has made his appearance!?"

She was alarmed and she entered a tent where certain people were busy kindling fire.


Both the ladies, Aisha and Hafsah came running to the Holy Prophet (sal Allah alaihi wasalam) and informed him of the joke they had with Sayyidah Saudah.

The Holy Prophet quietly came to the entrance of the tent and said, "The Dajjal has not yet made his appearance." On hearing this, Saudah came out of the tent and cleared her garments of the cobweb which had clung to her dress in the tent.


Asabah v-8 p.65. /
This extract is by Saeed Ansari Nadwi - Biographies of Women Companions of the Holy Prophet, p41

"Eat, or i'll fill daube face!"

A'isha said: I came to the Prophet (sal Allah alaihi wasalam ) with some harirah الحريرة) that I had cooked for him, and told Sawdah (another wife of the Prophet) - as the Prophet was sitting between me and her - 'Eat'*.

She refused so I said 'Either you eat or I will fill your face!' She still refused so I put my hand in the harirah and daubed her face with it. The Prophet laughed, put some harirah in her hand and told her: 'Do the same to her!"


*Aisha wasn't a good cook.

Al-Haythami, 4/316; al-Muntakhab 4/393; Kanz al-'Ummal, 7/302. Al-Haythami said: It was narrated by Abu Ya'la, and its narrators are those who narrated in Sahih (Bukhari), except for Muhammad ibn 'Amr ibn 'Alqamah whose hadith is Hasan [good].