Encounters during the Mi’raj: The Scent of the Martyrs

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

During the night of the Mi’raj, the Prophet (s.a.w.), accompanied by Jibril (a.s.), travelled to a place where the Prophet (s.a.w.) noticed a fragrant wind and asked, “O Jibril, what is this sweet scent?” 

He replied, “This is the scent of the lady who combed the hair of Pharaoh’s daughter and that of her children.  As she combed the hair of Pharaoh’s daughter, the comb fell, and she said, ‘In the Name of Allah, may Pharaoh perish!’ 

Whereupon, Pharaoh’s daughter asked, ‘Do you have a Lord other than my father?’ 

She said ‘Yes.’ 

Pharaoh’s daughter said, ‘Shall I tell my father?’ 

She said ‘Yes.’ 

She told him, and he summoned her and asked, ‘Do you have a Lord other than me?’ 

She replied, ‘Yes, my Lord and your Lord is Allah.’  This woman had two sons and a husband.  Pharaoh summoned them, and he began to entice the woman and her husband to renege on their religion, but they refused. 

He threatened, ‘Then I shall kill you.’ 

She said, ‘Be so good as to bury us all together in a single grave if you kill us.’ 

He replied, ‘Granted, and it is your right to ask us.’  He then ordered that a huge cow made of copper be filled with boiling liquid and that she and her children be thrown into it.  The children were taken and thrown in one after the other. The second and youngest was still an infant at the breast. 

When they took him, he said, ‘Mother!  Fall and do not tarry, for verily you are on the right.’  Then she was thrown in with her children.” 

Sayyidina ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas (r.a.) said, about this hadits, “Four spoke from the cradle when they were still infants: this child, Yusuf’s witness, Jurayj’s companion, and ‘Isa ibn Maryam.” 

سُوۡرَةُ یُوسُف

قَالَ هِىَ رَٲوَدَتۡنِى عَن نَّفۡسِى‌ۚ وَشَهِدَ شَاهِدٌ۬ مِّنۡ أَهۡلِهَآ إِن كَانَ قَمِيصُهُ ۥ قُدَّ مِن قُبُلٍ۬ فَصَدَقَتۡ وَهُوَ مِنَ ٱلۡكَـٰذِبِينَ (٢٦) 

He said, “It was she that sought to seduce me from my (true) self.”  And one of her household saw (this) and bore witness, (thus) – “If it be that his shirt is rent from the front, then is her tale true, and he is a liar!” (Surah Yusuf:26)