The Chapters on Marriage

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah informed us, from al-Zuhri, from ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar, from Iyas ibn ʿAbdullah ibn Abi Dhubab, who said: The Prophet said, ‘Do not strike the women servants of Allah.’ Then ʿUmar came to the Prophet and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, women have become bold toward their husbands,’ and he ordered that they be struck. They were struck, and many women came around the household of Muhammad. When morning came, he said, ‘Seventy women came around the household of Muhammad last night, each complaining of her husband. You will not find those men among the best of you.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muhammad ibn Yahya and al-Hasan ibn Mudrik al-Tahhan narrated to us; they said: Yahya ibn Hammad narrated to us; Abu ʿAwanah narrated to us, from Dawud ibn ʿAbdullah al-Awdi, from ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Musli, from al-Ashʿath ibn Qays, who said: I was ʿUmar’s guest one night. In the middle of the night, he got up and began striking his wife, so I stood between them. When he returned to his bed, he said to me, ‘Ashʿath, remember something I heard from the Messenger of Allah: “A man is not to be asked why he strikes his wife, and do not sleep except after praying Witr.”’ I forgot the third thing. Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Khidash narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us: Abu ʿAwanah narrated to us with the same chain, reporting something similar.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAbdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us; and Abu Usamah, from ʿUbaydullah ibn ʿUmar, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from the Prophet, that he cursed the woman who adds hair extensions and the woman who seeks to have them added, and the woman who tattoos and the woman who seeks to be tattooed.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAbdah ibn Sulayman narrated to us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from Fatimah, from Asmaʾ, who said: A woman came to the Prophet and said, ‘My daughter is a young bride, and she has had measles, so her hair has fallen out. May I add hair extensions for her?’ The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Allah has cursed the woman who adds hair extensions and the woman who seeks to have them added.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu ʿUmar, Hafs ibn ʿAmr, and ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Mansur, from Ibrahim, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah cursed the women who tattoo and those who seek tattoos, the women who pluck facial hair, and the women who file their teeth for beauty, altering Allah’s creation. This reached a woman of Banu Asad called Umm Yaʿqub. She came to him and said, ‘I have heard that you said such-and-such.’ He replied, ‘Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of Allah cursed, when it is in the Book of Allah?’ She said, ‘I have read all that is between its covers, and I did not find it there.’ He said, ‘If you have read it, then you have found it. Have you not read, “Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you, refrain from it”?’ She said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘The Messenger of Allah forbade it.’ She said, ‘I suppose your family does these things.’ He said, ‘Go and look.’ She went and looked, but saw none of what she had expected. She said, ‘I saw nothing.’ ʿAbdullah said, ‘If they were as you said, they would not have remained in our company.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Wakiʿ ibn al-Jarrah narrated to us; and Abu Bishr, Bakr ibn Khalaf, narrated to us: Yahya ibn Saʿid narrated to us. Both reported from Sufyan, from Ismaʿil ibn Umayyah, from ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUrwah, from ʿUrwah, from ʿAishah, who said: ‘The Prophet married me in Shawwal and consummated the marriage with me in Shawwal. Which of his wives was more favored by him than I was?’ ʿAishah used to like for her women to enter into marriage in Shawwal.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Aswad ibn ʿAmir narrated to us: Zuhayr narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from ʿAbdullah ibn Abi Bakr, from his father, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham, from his father, that the Prophet married Umm Salamah in Shawwal and brought her to his household in Shawwal.

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.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Hisham ibn ʿAmmar narrated to us: Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash narrated to us: Sulayman ibn Sulaym al-Kalbi narrated to me, from Yahya ibn Jabir, from Hakim ibn Muʿawiyah, from his paternal uncle, Mikhmar ibn Muʿawiyah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah say, ‘There is no ill omen, though good fortune may be found in three things: a woman, a horse, and a house.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

ʿAbd al-Salam ibn ʿAsim narrated to us: ʿAbdullah ibn Nafiʿ narrated to us: Malik ibn Anas narrated to us, from Abu Hazim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, that the Messenger of Allah said, ‘If there were ill omen, it would be in a horse, a woman, and a dwelling.’ The narrator explained: meaning ill omen.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Yahya ibn Khalaf Abu Salamah narrated to us: Bishr ibn al-Mufaddal narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq, from al-Zuhri, from Salim, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah said, ‘Ill omen is in three things: a horse, a woman, and a house.’ Al-Zuhri said: Abu ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbdullah ibn Zamʿah told me that his grandmother Zaynab related to him, from Umm Salamah, that she used to count these three and add the sword to them.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muhammad ibn Ismaʿil narrated to us: Wakiʿ narrated to us, from Shayban Abu Muʿawiyah, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from Abu Sahm, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Some jealousy is loved by Allah, and some He dislikes. As for what He loves, it is jealousy when there is cause for suspicion; as for what He dislikes, it is jealousy when there is no cause for suspicion.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Harun ibn Ishaq narrated to us: ʿAbdah ibn Sulayman narrated to us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿAishah, who said: ‘I was never jealous of any woman as I was of Khadijah, because of what I heard of the Messenger of Allah remembering her. His Lord had indeed commanded him to give her the glad tidings of a house in Paradise made of qasab’—meaning gold; this is Ibn Majah’s explanation.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

ʿIsa ibn Hammad al-Misri narrated to us: al-Layth ibn Saʿd informed us, from ʿAbdullah ibn Abi Mulaykah, from al-Miswar ibn Makhramah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, while he was on the pulpit, say: ‘The Banu Hisham ibn al-Mughirah have asked my permission to marry their daughter to ʿAli ibn Abi Talib. I will not permit them; then I will not permit them; then I will not permit them—unless ʿAli ibn Abi Talib wishes to divorce my daughter and marry their daughter. She is a part of me; whatever troubles her troubles me, and whatever hurts her hurts me.’

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: Abu al-Yaman narrated to us: Shuʿayb informed us, from al-Zuhri: ʿAli ibn al-Husayn told me that al-Miswar ibn Makhramah informed him that ʿAli ibn Abi Talib had sought to marry the daughter of Abu Jahl while Fatimah, the Prophet’s daughter, was already with him. When Fatimah heard of this, she went to the Prophet and said, ‘Your people are saying that you do not become angry on behalf of your daughters, while here is ʿAli marrying the daughter of Abu Jahl.’ Al-Miswar said: The Prophet stood, and I heard him say the testimony of faith, then say: ‘To proceed: I gave Abu al-ʿAs ibn al-Rabiʿ my daughter in marriage, and he spoke to me and was truthful with me. Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad, is a part of me, and I dislike that you distress her. By Allah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah and the daughter of the enemy of Allah will never be joined to one man.’ ʿAli then withdrew from the proposal.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: ʿAbdah ibn Sulayman narrated to us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿAishah, who used to say: ‘Is a woman not ashamed to offer herself to the Prophet, until Allah revealed, “You may defer whichever of them you will and receive whichever you will”?’ She said: ‘I said, “Your Lord surely hastens to fulfill your desire.”’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bishr, Bakr ibn Khalaf, and Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us; they said: Marhum ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz narrated to us: Thabit narrated to us, saying: We were sitting with Anas ibn Malik, and one of his daughters was with him. Anas said: A woman came to the Prophet and offered herself to him. She said, ‘Messenger of Allah, do you have any desire for me?’ His daughter said, ‘How little modesty she has!’ He replied, ‘She is better than you. She desired the Messenger of Allah and offered herself to him.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us; they said: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: A man from Banu Fazara came to the Messenger of Allah and said, ‘My wife has given birth to a black boy.’ The Messenger of Allah asked, ‘Do you have camels?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘What colors are they?’ He said, ‘Red.’ He asked, ‘Are there any grayish ones among them?’ He said, ‘There are indeed grayish ones among them.’ He asked, ‘How did that come about?’ He said, ‘Perhaps an ancestral strain was passed on to them.’ He said, ‘And this one may have inherited a strain.’ This is the wording of Ibn al-Sabbah.

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Kurayb narrated to us: ʿAbaʾah ibn Kulayb al-Laythi Abu Ghassan narrated to us, from Juwayriyah ibn Asmaʾ, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar: A man from the desert came to the Prophet and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, my wife has given birth to a black boy on my bed, though we are a household in which there has never been a black person.’ He asked, ‘Do you have camels?’ The man said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘What colors are they?’ He said, ‘Red.’ He asked, ‘Are any of them black?’ He said, ‘No.’ He asked, ‘Are any grayish?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He asked, ‘How did that happen?’ He said, ‘Perhaps an ancestral strain was passed on.’ He said, ‘Then perhaps this son of yours inherited an ancestral strain.’

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us: Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from al-Zuhri, from ʿUrwah, from ʿAishah, who said: ʿAbd ibn Zamʿah and Saʿd disputed before the Prophet about the son of Zamʿah’s slave woman. Saʿd said, ‘Messenger of Allah, my brother instructed me, when I arrived in Mecca, to look for the son of Zamʿah’s slave woman and take custody of him.’ ʿAbd ibn Zamʿah said, ‘He is my brother and the son of my father’s slave woman; he was born on my father’s bed.’ The Prophet saw that the boy resembled ʿUtbah and said, ‘He is yours, ʿAbd ibn Zamʿah. The child belongs to the marital bed. And observe the veil before him, Sawdah.’