Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3459
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ، ح وَأَنْبَأَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْمُعْتَمِرُ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْحَكَمَ بْنَ أَبَانَ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عِكْرِمَةَ، قَالَ أَتَى رَجُلٌ نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ ظَاهَرَ مِنِ امْرَأَتِهِ ثُمَّ غَشِيَهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ مَا عَلَيْهِ . قَالَ " مَا حَمَلَكَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ " . قَالَ يَا نَبِيَّ اللَّهِ رَأَيْتُ بَيَاضَ سَاقَيْهَا فِي الْقَمَرِ . قَالَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " فَاعْتَزِلْ حَتَّى تَقْضِيَ مَا عَلَيْكَ " . وَقَالَ إِسْحَاقُ فِي حَدِيثِهِ " فَاعْتَزِلْهَا حَتَّى تَقْضِيَ مَا عَلَيْكَ " . وَاللَّفْظُ لِمُحَمَّدٍ . قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْمُرْسَلُ أَوْلَى بِالصَّوَابِ مِنَ الْمُسْنَدِ وَاللَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى أَعْلَمُ .
Ishaq bin Ibrahim informed us, from al-Mu'tamir; and Muhammad bin Abd al-A'la informed us; al-Mu'tamir narrated to us. He said: I heard al-Hakam bin Aban say: I heard Ikrimah say: A man came to the Prophet of Allah and said, ‘Prophet of Allah, I pronounced zihar against my wife, then had intercourse with her before doing what I was required to do.’ He said, ‘What prompted you to do that?’ The man said, ‘Prophet of Allah, I saw the whiteness of her legs in the moonlight.’ The Prophet of Allah said, ‘Stay away until you fulfill what you owe.’ Ishaq's version says, ‘Stay away from her until you fulfill what you owe.’ The wording is Muhammad's. Abu Abd al-Rahman said: ‘The mursal version is more correct than the musnad version, and Allah, Glorified and Exalted, knows best.’
Translation notes
Zihar is a pre-Islamic formula of marital repudiation that carries a prescribed expiation. Mursal and musnad are technical descriptions of transmission chains.