A Woman of Fire
The Life and Unsilenced Voice of Aisha, Mother of BelieversBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 30m
About this audiobook
She was eighteen when he died in her arms.
You know what it is to carry something that never quite closes. Aisha bint Abi Bakr was told her grief was too loud and her questions inconvenient—and she did not get smaller.
As the Prophet Muhammad's youngest wife, she became the main source for how he lived, transmitting over two thousand narrations. Senior companions brought her questions they could not settle, and when they were wrong, she corrected them by name.
She did it from one small room, where he was buried under the floor.
A Woman of Fire is the first narrative biography telling her life at full scale, built from her transmitted words—a woman who produced the most consulted body of knowledge of her generation.
• Meet her as a person rather than a name in a chain of transmission
• See how her words carried into Islamic law
This is for anyone told they take up too much room. Nothing here is invented.
Open the first page. She is still talking.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (100)
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 25, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
1411. The Voice of the Law
2Epigraph
1512. The Fire of Uthman
3Prologue
1613. On a Camel into Battle
41. The Girl Who Was Never Quiet
1714. Defeat With Dignity
52. The Dream
1815. The Long Years
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63. Honey on the Tongue
1916. The Hunger of Her Grief
74. The Green-Eyed Wife
2017. What She Left Behind
85. The Lie
2118. The Difficult Questions
96. The Curtain Falls
2219. Daughters of Aisha
107. The Uncut Thread
2320. The Living Voice
118. She Who Remembers
24Epilogue
129. When She Said No
2521. Author's Note
1310. A House Full of Students
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