Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 5071
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي قَيْسٌ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ كُنَّا نَغْزُو مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَلَيْسَ لَنَا نِسَاءٌ فَقُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلاَ نَسْتَخْصِي فَنَهَانَا عَنْ ذَلِكَ.
Translation
Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā narrated to us: Yaḥyā narrated to us: Ismāʿīl narrated to us, saying: Qays narrated to me, from Ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: We used to campaign with the Prophet and had no wives with us. We said, ‘Messenger of Allah, should we castrate ourselves?’ He forbade us to do that.