Sunan an-Nasa'i

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3516

Arabic hadith text

أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ شُعَيْبِ بْنِ اللَّيْثِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ جَدِّي، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ هُرْمُزَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، أَنَّ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتَ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، أَخْبَرَتْهُ عَنْ أُمِّهَا أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّ امْرَأَةً مِنْ أَسْلَمَ يُقَالُ لَهَا سُبَيْعَةُ كَانَتْ تَحْتَ زَوْجِهَا فَتُوُفِّيَ عَنْهَا وَهِيَ حُبْلَى فَخَطَبَهَا أَبُو السَّنَابِلِ بْنُ بَعْكَكٍ فَأَبَتْ أَنْ تَنْكِحَهُ فَقَالَ مَا يَصْلُحُ لَكِ أَنْ تَنْكِحِي حَتَّى تَعْتَدِّي آخِرَ الأَجَلَيْنِ ‏.‏ فَمَكَثَتْ قَرِيبًا مِنْ عِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ نُفِسَتْ فَجَاءَتْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَقَالَ ‏"‏ انْكِحِي ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Abd al-Malik ibn Shu'ayb ibn al-Layth ibn Sa'd informed us; he said: My father narrated to me, from my grandfather, who said: Ja'far ibn Rabi'ah narrated to me, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Hurmuz, from Abu Salamah ibn Abd al-Rahman, that Zaynab bint Abi Salamah related to him from her mother Umm Salamah, the wife of the Prophet: A woman of the Aslam tribe named Subay'ah was married when her husband died while she was pregnant. Abu al-Sanabil ibn Ba'kak proposed to her, but she refused to marry him. He said, ‘You cannot marry until you have observed the later of the two terms.’ She waited nearly twenty nights, then gave birth. She came to the Messenger of Allah, who said, ‘Marry.’