Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2070
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ النَّيْسَابُورِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، قَالَ ذَكَرَ طَلْحَةُ بْنُ نَافِعٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ تَزَوَّجَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ امْرَأَةً مِنْ بَلْعِجْلاَنَ فَدَخَلَ بِهَا فَبَاتَ عِنْدَهَا فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ قَالَ مَا وَجَدْتُهَا عَذْرَاءَ فَرُفِعَ شَأْنُهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَدَعَا الْجَارِيَةَ فَسَأَلَهَا فَقَالَتْ بَلَى قَدْ كُنْتُ عَذْرَاءَ . فَأَمَرَ بِهِمَا فَتَلاَعَنَا وَأَعْطَاهَا الْمَهْرَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAli ibn Salamah al-Naysaburi narrated to us; Yaʿqub ibn Ibrahim ibn Saʿd narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Ibn Ishaq, who said: Talhah ibn Nafiʿ mentioned, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said: A man from the Ansar married a woman from Balʿajlan. He consummated the marriage and spent the night with her. In the morning, he said, ‘I did not find her to be a virgin.’ Her case was brought before the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace), who summoned the young woman and questioned her. She said, ‘Yes, I had been a virgin.’ He ordered the two of them to perform liʿan, and he gave her the bridal gift.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
قَالَ تَزَوَّجَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ امْرَأَةً مِنْ بَلْعِجْلاَنَ فَدَخَلَ بِهَا فَبَاتَ عِنْدَهَا فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ قَالَ مَا وَجَدْتُهَا عَذْرَاءَ فَرُفِعَ شَأْنُهَا إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَدَعَا الْجَارِيَةَ فَسَأَلَهَا فَقَالَتْ بَلَى قَدْ كُنْتُ عَذْرَاءَ .
The report states that liʿan was ordered after the husband claimed his wife was not a virgin and she denied this. The exact legal rationale is not explained in this wording.
Should liʿan be retained as a technical term here, with the report’s stated sequence left unexplained?