Sunan ad-Darimi — Hadith #54349

Then he came to Basra and told us that he met Abdullah bin Abbas and asked him about Witr. He said: Shall I not speak to you with the most knowledgeable of people? The string of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace? I said: Yes, he said: The mother of the believers, Aisha, so go to her and ask her, then return to me. So tell me what she tells you. So I went to Hakim bin Aflah and said to him: Go with me to the mother of the believers, Aisha. He said: I will not go to her, for I have forbidden these two Shiites. She refused to go on. I said: I swore to you when you set off, so we set off, and he greeted us, and I recognized the voice of Wise, so she said: Who is this? I said: Saad bin Hisham. She said: Who is Hisham? I said: Hisham bin Amer. She said: Yes, he was killed on the day of Uhud. I said: Tell us about the character of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. She said: “Don’t you read the Qur’an?” I said: Yes. She said: For he is the character of a Messenger. God, may God bless him and grant him peace. “So I wanted to get up and not ask anyone about anything until I joined God, so he offered me to stand up.”