It is told of Mus'ab bin al-Zubayr that he met in Al-Medinah Izzah, who was one of the shrewdest of women, and said to her, "I have a mind to marry Ayishah daughter of Talhah, and I should like you to go to her and spy out for me how she is made." So she went away and, returning to Mus'ab, said, "I have seen her, and her face is fairer than health. She has large and well-opened eyes and beneath them a nose straight and smooth as a cane, oval cheeks and a mouth like a ripe pomegranate, a neck as a silver ewer and below it a bosom with two breasts like twin pomegranates, and further down a slim waist and a slender stomach with a navel within it as if it were a casket of ivory, and back parts like a hummock of sand, and plumply rounded thighs and calves like columns of alabaster. But I saw her feet to be large, and you will fall short with her in time of need." Upon this report he married her. —

When it was the Three Hundred and Eighty seventh night

May I be your sacrifice! You are perfect, even in this."

And a certain woman said, "I was with Ayishah when her husband came in to her, and she lusted for him. So he fell upon her and she made all kinds of wondrous movements and marvellous new inventions, and I the while heard it all. When he came out from her, I said to her, 'How can you do thus with your rank and nobility and condition, and I in your house?' She said, 'Truly a woman should bring her husband all of which she is mistress, by way of excitement and rare movements and writhing. What do you dislike of this?' And I answered, 'I would have this by nights.' She replied, 'Thus is it by day and by night I do more than this. For when he sees me, desire stirs him up and he falls in heat, so he puts it to me and I obey him, and it is as you see.' And there also has reached me an account of