Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2014
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَهَّابِ بْنُ الضَّحَّاكِ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ تُؤْذِي امْرَأَةٌ زَوْجَهَا إِلاَّ قَالَتْ زَوْجَتُهُ مِنَ الْحُورِ الْعِينِ لاَ تُؤْذِيهِ قَاتَلَكِ اللَّهُ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ عِنْدَكِ دَخِيلٌ أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يُفَارِقَكِ إِلَيْنَا " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn al-Dahhak narrated to us: Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash narrated to us, from Bahir ibn Saʿd, from Khalid ibn Maʿdan, from Kathir ibn Murrah, from Muʿadh ibn Jabal, who said: The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Whenever a woman harms her husband, his wife from among the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise says, “Do not harm him—may Allah oppose you! He is only a guest with you; soon he will leave you and come to us.”’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The word دَخِيلٌ is rendered as ‘a guest’ in the sense of someone temporarily staying with her.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " لاَ تُؤْذِي امْرَأَةٌ زَوْجَهَا إِلاَّ قَالَتْ زَوْجَتُهُ مِنَ الْحُورِ الْعِينِ لاَ تُؤْذِيهِ قَاتَلَكِ اللَّهُ فَإِنَّمَا هُوَ عِنْدَكِ دَخِيلٌ أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يُفَارِقَكِ إِلَيْنَا " .
The word دَخِيلٌ can refer to a guest or someone temporarily present; the image is of the husband being with his earthly wife only temporarily before joining the maidens of Paradise.
Does ‘a guest with you’ convey the intended temporary presence clearly enough?