Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3233
أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَنْبَأَنَا النَّضْرُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلاَ تَتَزَوَّجُ مِنْ نِسَاءِ الأَنْصَارِ قَالَ " إِنَّ فِيهِمْ لَغَيْرَةً شَدِيدَةً " .
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed us; he said: al-Nadr informed us; he said: Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Ishaq ibn Abd Allah, from Anas, who said: They asked: ‘Messenger of Allah, why do you not marry women from the Ansar?’ He said: ‘They have very strong protective jealousy.’
Translation notes
The term غَيْرَةٌ refers to protective jealousy; the report gives this as the reason for the response about marrying women of the Ansar.
قَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَلاَ تَتَزَوَّجُ مِنْ نِسَاءِ الأَنْصَارِ قَالَ " إِنَّ فِيهِمْ لَغَيْرَةً شَدِيدَةً " .
The phrase لَغَيْرَةً شَدِيدَةً means intense protective jealousy, but the report does not clarify whose jealousy or its specific context.
Should the translation leave the object of their jealousy implicit, as in the Arabic?