وعن زينب الثقفية امرأة عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عنه وعنها
قالت: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «تصدقن يا معشر النساء ولو من حليكن«قالت: فرجعت إلى عبد الله بن مسعود فقلت له: إنك رجل خفيف ذات اليد وإن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قد أمرنا بالصدقة فأته، فاسأله، فإن كان ذلك يجزئ عني وإلا صرفتها إلى غيركم.
فقال عبد الله: بل ائتيه أنت، فانطلقت، فإذا امرأة من الأنصار بباب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حاجتي حاجتها، وكان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قد ألقيت عليه المهابة، فخرج علينا بلال، فقلنا له: ائت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، فأخبره أن امرأتين بالباب تسألانك: أتجزئ الصدقة عنهما على أزواجهما وعلى أيتام في حجورهما؟
ولا تخبره من نحن، فدخل على أزواجهما وعلى أيتام في حجورهما؟ ولا تخبره من نحن، فدخل بلال على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، فسأله، فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «من هما؟
«قال: امرأة من الأنصار وزينب. فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «أي الزيانب هي؟ «قال: امرأة عبد الله، فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «لهما أجران: أجر القرابة وأجر الصدقة»
When Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) told the women that they should give Sadaqah (charity), even if it should be some of their jewellery, I returned to Abdullah ibn Masud and said, “You are a man who does not possess much, and Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) has commanded us to give Sadaqah. So go and ask him if giving to you will serve the purpose; otherwise, I shall give it to someone else.”
He asked me that I should better go myself. I went and found a woman of the Ansar at the door of Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam), waiting to ask a similar question as mine. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) was endowed with dignity, and so we could not go in.
When Bilal (radiyallahu anhu) came out to us, we said to him: “Go to Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and tell him that there are two women at the door who have come to ask him whether it will serve them to give Sadaqah to their husbands and to orphans who are in their charge, but do not tell him who we are.
Bilal (radiyallahu anhu) went in and asked him, and Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) asked him who the women were. When he told him that they were a woman of the Ansar and Zainab, he asked him which Zainab it was, and when he was told it was the wife of Abdullah ibn Masud, he (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said, ‘They will have a double reward, one for maintaining the ties of kinship and another for Sadaqah’.”