A'ishah lived on almost fifty years after the passing away of the Prophet. She had been
his wife for a decade. Much of this time was spent in learning and acquiring knowledge of
the two most important sources of God's guidance, the Qur'an and the Sunnah of His
Prophet. A'ishah was one of three wives (the other two being Hafsah and Umm Salamah) who
memorised the Revelation. Like Hafsah, she had her own script of the Qur'an written after
the Prophet had died.
So far as the Ahadith or sayings of the Prophet is concerned, A'ishah is one of four
persons (the others being Abu Hurayrah, Abdullah ibn Umar, and Anas ibn Malik) who
transmitted more than two thousand sayings. Many of these pertain to some of the most
intimate aspects of personal behaviour which only someone in A'ishah's position could have
learnt. What is most important is that her knowledge of hadith was passed on in written
form by at least three persons including her nephew Urwah who became one of the greatest
scholars among the generation after the Companions.