Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْبَجَلِيُّ عَنْ كَرِيمِ بْنِ أَبِي حَازِمٍ عَنْ جَدَّتِهِ سَلْمَى بِنْتِ جَابِرٍ أَنَّ زَوْجَهَا اسْتُشْهِدَ فَأَتَتْ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ مَسْعُودٍ فَقَالَتْ إِنِّي امْرَأَةٌ قَدْ اسْتُشْهِدَ زَوْجِي وَقَدْ خَطَبَنِي الرِّجَالُ فَأَبَيْتُ أَنْ أَتَزَوَّجَ حَتَّى أَلْقَاهُ فَتَرْجُو لِي إِنْ اجْتَمَعْتُ أَنَا وَهُوَ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِنْ أَزْوَاجِهِ قَالَ نَعَمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ رَجُلٌ مَا رَأَيْنَاكَ نَقَلْتَ هَذَا مُذْ قَاعَدْنَاكَ قَالَ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ أَسْرَعَ أُمَّتِي بِي لُحُوقًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ أَحْمَسَ.
English Translation
Abu Ahmad told us, Aban ibn Abdullah al-Bajali told us, from Karim ibn Abi Hazim, from his grandmother Salma bint Jabir, that her husband was martyred, so she came to Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and said: "I am a woman whose husband has been martyred, and men have proposed to me, but I refused to marry until I meet him, so do you think that if we are brought together, I and he, I would be among his wives?" He said: "Yes." A man said to him: "We have not seen you relate this since we have been sitting with you." He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: 'The quickest of my nation to join me in Paradise will be a woman from Ahmas.'"