Sahih al-Bukhari

Sahih al-Bukhari 5079

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النُّعْمَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، حَدَّثَنَا سَيَّارٌ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، قَالَ قَفَلْنَا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مِنْ غَزْوَةٍ فَتَعَجَّلْتُ عَلَى بَعِيرٍ لِي قَطُوفٍ، فَلَحِقَنِي رَاكِبٌ مِنْ خَلْفِي، فَنَخَسَ بَعِيرِي بِعَنَزَةٍ كَانَتْ مَعَهُ، فَانْطَلَقَ بَعِيرِي كَأَجْوَدِ مَا أَنْتَ رَاءٍ مِنَ الإِبِلِ، فَإِذَا النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ ‏"‏ مَا يُعْجِلُكَ ‏"‏‏.‏ قُلْتُ كُنْتُ حَدِيثَ عَهْدٍ بِعُرُسٍ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ بِكْرًا أَمْ ثَيِّبًا ‏"‏‏.‏ قُلْتُ ثَيِّبٌ‏.‏ قَالَ ‏"‏ فَهَلاَّ جَارِيَةً تُلاَعِبُهَا وَتُلاَعِبُكَ ‏"‏‏.‏ قَالَ فَلَمَّا ذَهَبْنَا لِنَدْخُلَ قَالَ ‏"‏ أَمْهِلُوا حَتَّى تَدْخُلُوا لَيْلاً ـ أَىْ عِشَاءً ـ لِكَىْ تَمْتَشِطَ الشَّعِثَةُ وَتَسْتَحِدَّ الْمُغِيبَةُ ‏"‏‏.‏

Translation

Abū al-Nuʿmān narrated to us: Hushaym narrated to us: Sayyār narrated to us, from al-Shaʿbī, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: We were returning with the Prophet from a campaign. I hurried ahead on a sluggish camel of mine. A rider caught up behind me and prodded my camel with a spear he had with him. It then went off as swiftly as the finest camel you could see. Then I saw that it was the Prophet. He said, ‘Why are you in such a hurry?’ I said, ‘I have only recently married.’ He asked, ‘A virgin or a previously married woman?’ I said, ‘Previously married.’ He said, ‘Why not a young woman, so that you could play with her and she with you?’ When we were about to enter [the city], he said, ‘Wait until you enter at nightfall, so that the woman with disheveled hair may comb it, and the woman whose husband has been away may use a razor.’