Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #30050

Muhammad bin Bashar told us, he said, Abd al-Samad bin Abd al-Warith told us, he said Hashim told us, he is Ibn Sa`id al-Kufi, he said, he told us Kinanah, he said: Safiyya bint Huyya told us, she said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, came to me and I was informed about Hafsa and Aisha’s words. So I mentioned that to him, and he said, “Didn’t you say, ‘How can you be better than me, when my husband is Muhammad, my father Harun, and my uncle Musa?’” And he was the one who conveyed it. They said, “We are more honorable to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, than she.” And they said, “We are the wives of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the daughters of his paternal uncles.” On the authority of Anas, this is a strange hadith. We do not know it from the hadith of Safiya except from the hadith of Hashim al-Kufi, and its chain of transmission is not that strong.