Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1992
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، - أَظُنُّهُ - عَنْ طَلْحَةَ، عَنْ خَيْثَمَةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ أَمَرَهَا أَنْ تُدْخِلَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ امْرَأَتَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهَا شَيْئًا .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us: al-Haytham ibn Jamil narrated to us: Sharik narrated to us, from Mansur—I think—from Talhah, from Khaythamah, from ʿAishah, that the Messenger of Allah instructed her to bring a man’s wife to him before he had given her anything.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The wording is kept close to the Arabic; it does not specify what ‘anything’ refers to.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ أَمَرَهَا أَنْ تُدْخِلَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ امْرَأَتَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهَا شَيْئًا .
The object of ‘give her anything’ is not specified in the Arabic; it may refer to a payment, but the text does not say so explicitly.
Should ‘anything’ remain general, or is there enough context to identify the intended payment?