Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 5069
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ رَقَبَةَ، عَنْ طَلْحَةَ الْيَامِيِّ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، قَالَ قَالَ لِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ هَلْ تَزَوَّجْتَ قُلْتُ لاَ. قَالَ فَتَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ أَكْثَرُهَا نِسَاءً.
Translation
ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī narrated to us: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from Raqabah, from Ṭalḥah al-Yāmī, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, who said: Ibn ʿAbbās said to me, ‘Are you married?’ I replied, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Then marry, for the best of this community had the most wives.’