Divorce

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ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Yazīd, the client of al-Munbaʿith, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about a lost sheep. He said, ‘Take it; it is yours, or your brother's, or the wolf's.’ He was asked about a lost camel. He became angry, his cheeks reddened, and said, ‘What business have you with it? It has its feet and its waterskin; it drinks water and eats trees until its Lord meets it.’ He was asked about found property and said, ‘Learn its cord and its pouch, announce it for a year, and if someone comes who recognizes it, return it to him. Otherwise, mix it with your property.’ Sufyān said: I met Rabīʿah ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—Sufyān said, ‘I did not retain anything else from him’—and asked him, ‘Do you consider the report of Yazīd, the client of al-Munbaʿith, about lost property to be from Zayd ibn Khālid?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ Yaḥyā said: Rabīʿah would say that it was from Yazīd, the client of al-Munbaʿith, from Zayd ibn Khālid. Sufyān said: I met Rabīʿah and said to him—

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Abū ʿĀmir ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAmr narrated to us: Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from Khālid, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, circumambulated on his camel. Whenever he came to the Corner, he pointed toward it and said, ‘Allah is greatest.’ Zaynab said: The Prophet said, ‘An opening this large has been made in the barrier of Gog and Magog,’ and he formed a circle with his fingers to indicate ninety.

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Musaddad narrated to us: Bishr ibn al-Mufaḍḍal narrated to us: Salamah ibn ʿAlqamah narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: Abū al-Qāsim, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘On Friday there is an hour in which no Muslim is standing in prayer, asking Allah for good, without Him granting it to him.’ He gestured with his hand, placing the tip of his middle finger and little finger on the palm. We thought he was indicating how brief it is.

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Al-Uwaysī said: Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd narrated to us, from Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj, from Hishām ibn Zayd, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: During the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, a Jewish man attacked a young girl, took the silver ornaments she was wearing, and crushed her head. Her family brought her to the Messenger of Allah while she was at her last breath and unable to speak. The Messenger of Allah said to her, naming someone other than the killer, ‘So-and-so killed you?’ She signaled no with her head. He said the name of another man, also not the killer, and she signaled no. Then he said the killer's name, ‘So-and-so?’ She signaled yes. The Messenger of Allah ordered that his head be crushed between two stones.

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Qabīṣah narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with them both, who said: I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: ‘The tribulation is from here,’ and he pointed toward the east.

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ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq al-Shaybānī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, who said: We were traveling with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. When the sun had set, he said to a man, ‘Get down and prepare a drink for me.’ The man said, ‘Messenger of Allah, if you would wait until evening.’ Then he said, ‘Get down and prepare the drink.’ The man said, ‘Messenger of Allah, there is still daylight.’ Then he said, ‘Get down and prepare it.’ On the third time, the man got down and prepared it for him. The Messenger of Allah drank, then gestured with his hand toward the east and said, ‘When you see night advancing from this direction, the fasting person has broken the fast.’

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us, from Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Abū ʿUthmān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Let none of you be prevented from taking the pre-dawn meal by Bilāl's call—or, he said, his adhān—for he calls—or, he said, gives the adhān—so that the one standing in prayer among you may return to rest.’ It is not to say that morning or dawn has begun. Yazīd displayed his hands and then stretched one away from the other.

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Al-Layth said: Jaʿfar ibn Rabīʿah narrated to me, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Hurmuz. I heard Abū Hurayrah say that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘The example of the miser and the spender is that of two men wearing coats of iron from their breasts up to their collarbones. Whenever the spender spends, the coat stretches over his skin until it covers his fingertips and erases his tracks. Whenever the miser intends to spend, every ring of the coat clings to its place; he tries to widen it, but it does not widen.’ He pointed with his finger to his throat.

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Qutaybah narrated to us: Layth narrated to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, who heard Anas ibn Mālik say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Shall I tell you which clans of the Anṣār are best?’ They said, ‘Yes, Messenger of Allah.’ He said, ‘Banū al-Najjār, then those next to them, Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal; then those next to them, Banū al-Ḥārith ibn al-Khazraj; then those next to them, Banū Sāʿidah.’ Then he gestured with his hand, clenching his fingers and then spreading them as an archer does with his hand, and said, ‘There is good in every clan of the Anṣār.’

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ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us; Abū Ḥāzim said: I heard it from Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: The Messenger of Allah said: ‘I and the Hour were sent like this’—or ‘like these two.’ He joined his index finger and middle finger.

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Ādam narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us: Jabalat ibn Suḥaym narrated to us; he said: I heard Ibn ʿUmar say: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘The month is like this, and this, and this’—meaning thirty. Then he said, ‘And like this, and this, and this’—meaning twenty-nine. He said: Sometimes thirty and sometimes twenty-nine.

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Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl, from Qays, from Abū Masʿūd, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, pointed with his hand toward Yemen and said, ‘Faith is here’—twice. ‘Indeed, harshness and hard-heartedness are among the loud-voiced herdsmen, where the two horns of Satan rise: Rabīʿah and Muḍar.’

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ʿAmr ibn Zurārah narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī Ḥāzim informed us, from his father, from Sahl, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘I and the one who cares for an orphan will be in Paradise like these two.’ He pointed with his index and middle fingers, holding them slightly apart.

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Yaḥyā ibn Qazaʿah narrated to us: Mālik narrated to us, from Ibn Shihāb, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah, that a man came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, a black boy has been born to me.’ He said, ‘Do you have camels?’ The man said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘What colors are they?’ He said, ‘Red.’ He said, ‘Are there any gray ones among them?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘How did that happen?’ The man said, ‘Perhaps it came from an ancestral strain.’ He said, ‘Perhaps this son of yours inherited that strain.’

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Juwayriyah narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh, may Allah be pleased with him, that a man from the Anṣār accused his wife of adultery. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, made them both swear their oaths, then separated them.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to me: Ibn Abī ʿAdī narrated to us, from Hishām ibn Ḥassān: ʿIkrimah narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAbbās, may Allah be pleased with them both, that Hilāl ibn Umayyah accused his wife. He came and testified while the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was saying, ‘Allah knows that one of you is lying. Will either of you repent?’ Then she stood and testified.

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Ismāʿīl narrated to us; he said: Mālik narrated to me, from Ibn Shihāb, that Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī informed him that ʿUwaymir al-ʿAjlānī came to ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAdī al-Anṣārī and said, ‘ʿĀṣim, what do you think of a man who finds another man with his wife? Should he kill him, and you then kill him, or what should he do? Ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, about that for me.’ ʿĀṣim asked the Messenger of Allah about it. The Messenger disliked such questions and criticized them, until what ʿĀṣim heard from him weighed heavily upon him. When ʿĀṣim returned to his family, ʿUwaymir came to him and asked, ‘ʿĀṣim, what did the Messenger of Allah say to you?’ ʿĀṣim said to ʿUwaymir, ‘You have brought me no good. The Messenger of Allah disliked the question I asked him.’ ʿUwaymir said, ‘By Allah, I will not stop until I ask him about it myself.’ He went to the Messenger of Allah among the people and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what do you think of a man who finds another man with his wife? Should he kill him, and you then kill him, or what should he do?’ The Messenger of Allah said, ‘It has been revealed concerning you and your wife, so go and bring her.’ Sahl said: They performed liʿān, and I was among the people with the Messenger of Allah. When they had finished invoking curses upon one another, ʿUwaymir said, ‘I would be lying about her, Messenger of Allah, if I kept her.’ He divorced her three times before the Messenger of Allah had ordered him to do so. Ibn Shihāb said: That became the practice of the spouses who perform liʿān.

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Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us: Ibn Jurayj informed us; he said: Ibn Shihāb informed me about liʿān and its procedure, in a report from Sahl ibn Saʿd, the brother of Banū Sāʿidah: A man from the Anṣār came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what do you think of a man who finds another man with his wife? Should he kill him, or what should he do?’ Allah revealed concerning his case what is mentioned in the Qur’an about the spouses who invoke curses upon one another. The Prophet said, ‘Allah has decreed concerning you and your wife.’ He said: They performed liʿān in the mosque, and I witnessed it. When they had finished, he said, ‘I would be lying about her, Messenger of Allah, if I kept her.’ He divorced her three times before the Messenger of Allah had ordered him to do so, after they had finished liʿān, and he separated from her in the presence of the Prophet. The Prophet said, ‘That is the separation between every two spouses who perform liʿān.’ Ibn Jurayj said: Ibn Shihāb said: The practice after them was that spouses who perform liʿān are separated. She was pregnant, and her son was attributed to his mother. Then the practice regarding her inheritance was that she inherited from him, and he inherited from her according to what Allah had prescribed for him. Ibn Jurayj said, from Ibn Shihāb, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, in this report: The Prophet said, ‘If she gives birth to a red, short child, like a small lizard, I would consider that she spoke truthfully and he lied about her. If she gives birth to a dark-skinned, wide-eyed child with large buttocks, I would consider that he spoke truthfully and she lied about him.’ She gave birth to a child matching the less favored of those descriptions.

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Saʿīd ibn ʿUfayr narrated to us; he said: al-Layth narrated to me, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that liʿān was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and ʿĀṣim ibn ʿAdī made a remark about it and then left. A man from his people came to him complaining that he had found another man with his wife. ʿĀṣim said, ‘I have been tested with this only because of what I said.’ He took the man to the Prophet and told him what he had found his wife doing. The husband was pale, lean, and straight-haired; the man he accused of being with his wife was dark-skinned, thickset, and full-bodied. The Prophet said, ‘O Allah, make it clear.’ She gave birth resembling the man her husband had described, and the Prophet performed liʿān between them. A man in the gathering asked Ibn ʿAbbās, ‘Was she the woman about whom the Prophet said, “If I were to stone anyone without proof, I would stone this woman”?’ He said, ‘No. That was a woman who used to display evil conduct openly in Islam.’ Abū Ṣāliḥ and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf used the word khadlan for the man's build.

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ʿAmr ibn Zurārah narrated to me: Ismāʿīl informed us, from Ayyūb, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr; he said: I said to Ibn ʿUmar, ‘A man accused his wife.’ He said, ‘The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, separated the two brothers of Banū al-ʿAjlān and said, “Allah knows that one of you is lying. Will either of you repent?” They refused. He said, “Allah knows that one of you is lying. Will either of you repent?” They refused. He said, “Allah knows that one of you is lying. Will either of you repent?” They refused, and he separated them.’ Ayyūb said: ʿAmr ibn Dīnār told me, ‘There is something in the report that I do not see you relating.’ He said: The man asked, ‘What property do I get?’ He was told, ‘You get no property. If you are truthful, you have already been intimate with her; if you are lying, then it is even farther from you.’