And when it included what he mentioned of His description, glorified and exalted is He, of His knowledge of the hidden matters, he followed it with what is like the reason for the verse ﴿The adulterer does not marry except an adulteress or a polytheist﴾ [An-Nur: 3], as a witnessing evidence for the innocence of Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her. He said: ﴿The foul﴾, meaning from the women, and he presented this description because their words are in it. So if the foul is negated, the good is established. ﴿For the foul﴾, meaning from the men. And when that does not imply that the foul is limited to the foul woman, he said: ﴿And the foul﴾, meaning from the men as well, ﴿For the foul women﴾, meaning from the women.

And when this was produced, her innocence may Allah be pleased with her, for she is the companion of the best of creation. He confirmed it by His saying: "And the good ones are for the good ones," meaning from them, "and the good ones are for the good ones," by this the All-Knowing, the All-Aware has decreed that every kind joins its kind and acts like it. And He, glorified and exalted is He, has chosen for this noble Prophet, due to his being the most honorable of His creation, His chosen servants from spouses, children, and companions. "You are the best nation brought forth for mankind" [Aal 'Imran: 110]. "The best of you is my generation," and whenever a person increases in closeness to them from his heart, he increases in purity. And this proof is enough as evidence for the innocence of the truthful woman may Allah be pleased with her. So how could it be, when Allah the Almighty has revealed in her innocence His clear words of old, and surrounded it from beginning to end with these two verses indicating the ordinary evidence? And it has been mentioned previously in the verse of "the adulterer" [An-Nur: 3] regarding the hadith of "Souls are like conscripted soldiers," and what is suitable for it. However, it did not encompass its derivation. And it has been narrated by Muslim in the Book of Virtues from his Sahih and Abu Dawood in his Sunan from the hadith of Abu Huraira may Allah be pleased with him that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Souls are like conscripted soldiers, so what they recognize among them will unite, and what they deny among them will differ." And in a narration from him, he raised it: "People are like mines, like the mines of gold and silver. The best of them in the days of ignorance are the best of them in Islam if they understand, and souls are like conscripted soldiers, so what they recognize among them will unite, and what they deny among them will differ." This hadith has also been narrated from Aisha, the Mother of the Believers may Allah be pleased with her, and Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Salman the Persian, and Abdullah ibn Abbas, and Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, and Abdullah ibn Amr, and Amr ibn Abasah may Allah be pleased with them. And Al-Bukhari has attached in his Sahih the hadith of Aisha may Allah be pleased with her in a decisive form, and he connected it in the Book of Singular Virtues, as did Al-Ismaili in the Mustakhraj, and Abu al-Sheikh in the Book of Proverbs. And it has been previously attributed to Abu Ya'la, and the wording of the hadith of Ibn Umar may Allah be pleased with them: "So what was for Allah will unite, and what was for other than Allah will differ." Abu al-Sheikh has narrated it in the Proverbs, and the wording of the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud may Allah be pleased with him: "So when they meet, they will clash like the clash of horses, so what they recognize among them will unite." And as for the hadith of Ali may Allah be pleased with him, it was narrated by Al-Tabarani in the Awsat in the biography of Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Saqti, and Abu Abdullah ibn Mandah in the Book of the Soul from Salim ibn Abdullah ibn Umar from his father who said: "Umar ibn al-Khattab may Allah be pleased with him said to Ali ibn Abi Talib may Allah be pleased with him: O Abu al-Hasan! Perhaps you witnessed and we were absent, and perhaps we witnessed and you were absent. I ask you about three things, do you have knowledge of them? Ali said: What are they? He said: A man loves a man and has not seen any good from him, and a man hates a man and has not seen any evil from him. Ali may Allah be pleased with him said: Yes! I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "Indeed, souls are like conscripted soldiers, so what they recognize among them will unite, and what they deny among them will differ." Umar said: One. He said: And a man tells a story when he forgets it (so while he is in it and forgets it) when he remembers it? Ali may Allah be pleased with him said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "There is no heart except that it has a cloud like the cloud of the moon. While the moon is shining, a cloud rises over it and it darkens, and when it clears, it shines again. And while the heart is speaking, a cloud covers it and it forgets, and when it clears from it, it remembers." Umar may Allah be pleased with him said: (p-247) Two. And he said: And a man sees a dream, some of which is true and some of which is false? He said: Yes! I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "There is no servant or maid who sleeps and feels heavy in sleep except that his soul is raised to the Throne. The one who does not awaken except at the Throne is the dream that is true, and the one who awakens before the Throne is the dream that is false." Umar may Allah be pleased with him said: Three, I was in pursuit of them, so praise be to Allah who granted them to me before death.

Similarly, Al-Tabarani narrated the hadith of Salman like the hadith of Abu Huraira, may Allah be pleased with them all, and they recited for Abu Nuwas in meaning:

'Indeed, the hearts are indeed soldiers gathered for Allah on earth, by which they recognize.

So what is recognized among them is in agreement, and what is denied among them is in disagreement.'

When this was established, its result was certainly: 'Those' meaning the ones of the highest attributes in purity and goodness, 'are free from blame' by the innocence of Allah and the innocence of everyone who contemplates such evidence, 'from what they say' meaning the vile slander, because it cannot be the wife of the best of the good except that she is like that.

And when He established for them the innocence, He began to inform them of their reward, saying: 'For them is forgiveness' meaning for what they fell short in, if they fell short. And when He was in the context of urging to spend on some of the slanderers, He said: 'And a generous provision' meaning they will live by it a good life, and they will do good to those who wronged them, and this will not diminish it due to His generosity in Himself, with His abundance, goodness, and other traits of generosity.