أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَجِيدِ ، حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِسْحَاق بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ ، عَنْ عَمَّتِهِ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عُجْرَةَ : أَنَّ الْفُرَيْعَةَ بِنْتَ مَالِكٍ أَخْبَرَتْهَا أَنَّهَا سَأَلَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنْ يَأْذَنَ لَهَا أَنْ تَرْجِعَ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا، فَإِنَّ زَوْجِي قَدْ خَرَجَ فِي طَلَبِ أَعْبُدٍ لَهُ أَبَقُوا، فَأَدْرَكَهُمْ حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ بِطَرَفِ الْقَدُومِ، قَتَلُوهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ :" امْكُثِي فِي بَيْتِكِ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ الْكِتَابُ أَجَلَهُ "، فَقُلْتُ : إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَدَعْنِي فِي بَيْتٍ أَمْلِكُهُ، وَلَا نَفَقَةٍ، فَقَالَ : " امْكُثِي حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ الْكِتَابُ أَجَلَهُ "، فَاعْتَدَّتْ فِيهِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًا، قَالَتْ : فَلَمَّا كَانَ عُثْمَانُ : أَرْسَلَ إِلَيَّ فَسَأَلَنِي عَنْ ذَلِكَ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ، فَاتَّبَعَ ذَلِكَ وَقَضَى بِهِ

Ubaid Allah bin Abdul Majeed told us, Malik told us, on the authority of Saad bin Ishaq bin Ka’b bin Ujrah, on the authority of his aunt Zainab bint Ka’b Ibn Ujrah: Al-Fura’i’ah bint Malik told her that she had asked the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to allow her to return to Its people, for my husband had gone out in search of a slave of his whom they had kept, so he overtook them and, just as he was about to arrive, they killed him, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said May God bless him and grant him peace: “Stay in your house until the appointed time has been fulfilled.” So I said: He did not leave me in a house that I own, or with any maintenance, so he said: “Stay.” “Until the letter has reached its term,” she observed four months and ten days. She said: When Uthman was there, he sent for me and asked me about that. So I informed him, so he followed that and decided accordingly.