Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3244
أَخْبَرَنِي حَاجِبُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَجَّاجٌ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، وَيَزِيدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ قُسَيْطٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَعَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ ثَوْبَانَ، أَنَّهُمَا سَأَلاَ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ قَيْسٍ عَنْ أَمْرِهَا، فَقَالَتْ طَلَّقَنِي زَوْجِي ثَلاَثًا فَكَانَ يَرْزُقُنِي طَعَامًا فِيهِ شَىْءٌ فَقُلْتُ وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ كَانَتْ لِي النَّفَقَةُ وَالسُّكْنَى لأَطْلُبَنَّهَا وَلاَ أَقْبَلُ هَذَا . فَقَالَ الْوَكِيلُ لَيْسَ لَكِ سُكْنَى وَلاَ نَفَقَةٌ . قَالَتْ فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ " لَيْسَ لَكِ سُكْنَى وَلاَ نَفَقَةٌ فَاعْتَدِّي عِنْدَ فُلاَنَةَ " . قَالَتْ وَكَانَ يَأْتِيهَا أَصْحَابُهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ " اعْتَدِّي عِنْدَ ابْنِ أُمِّ مَكْتُومٍ فَإِنَّهُ أَعْمَى فَإِذَا حَلَلْتِ فَآذِنِينِي " . قَالَتْ فَلَمَّا حَلَلْتُ آذَنْتُهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " وَمَنْ خَطَبَكِ " . فَقُلْتُ مُعَاوِيَةُ وَرَجُلٌ آخَرُ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ . فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " أَمَّا مُعَاوِيَةُ فَإِنَّهُ غُلاَمٌ مِنْ غِلْمَانِ قُرَيْشٍ لاَ شَىْءَ لَهُ وَأَمَّا الآخَرُ فَإِنَّهُ صَاحِبُ شَرٍّ لاَ خَيْرَ فِيهِ وَلَكِنِ انْكِحِي أُسَامَةَ بْنَ زَيْدٍ " . قَالَتْ فَكَرِهْتُهُ . فَقَالَ لَهَا ذَلِكَ ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ فَنَكَحَتْهُ .
Hajib ibn Sulayman informed me; he said: Hajjaj narrated to us; he said: Ibn Abi Dhi'b narrated to us, from al-Zuhri and Yazid ibn Abd Allah ibn Qusayt, from Abu Salamah ibn Abd al-Rahman and from al-Harith ibn Abd al-Rahman, from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Thawban, that the two of them asked Fatimah bint Qays about her situation. She said: ‘My husband divorced me three times, and he used to provide me with some food. I said: “By Allah, if maintenance and housing are my right, I will demand them and will not accept this.”’ The agent said: ‘You are entitled to neither housing nor maintenance.’ She said: ‘I went to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and told him about it. He said: “You are entitled to neither housing nor maintenance; observe your waiting period at so-and-so’s home.”’ She said: ‘His Companions used to visit her. Then he said: “Observe your waiting period at Ibn Umm Maktum’s home, for he is blind. When your waiting period is over, let me know.”’
She said: ‘When my waiting period was over, I informed him. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: “Who has proposed to you?” I said: “Muawiyah and another man from Quraysh.” The Prophet said: “As for Muawiyah, he is a young man among the young men of Quraysh who has nothing; as for the other, he is a man of evil with no good in him. Rather, marry Usamah ibn Zayd.”’ She said: ‘I disliked him.’ He said this to her three times, and she married him.
Translation notes
The report concerns Fatimah bint Qays’s waiting period after a threefold divorce and the questions of housing and maintenance. “So-and-so” is left unnamed in the Arabic.
She is told to observe her waiting period at Ibn Umm Maktum’s home, then later reports the suitors and marries Usamah ibn Zayd after initially disliking the match.
فَقَالَتْ طَلَّقَنِي زَوْجِي ثَلاَثًا فَكَانَ يَرْزُقُنِي طَعَامًا فِيهِ شَىْءٌ فَقُلْتُ وَاللَّهِ لَئِنْ كَانَتْ لِي النَّفَقَةُ وَالسُّكْنَى لأَطْلُبَنَّهَا وَلاَ أَقْبَلُ هَذَا .
The phrase كَانَ يَرْزُقُنِي طَعَامًا فِيهِ شَىْءٌ is unusual and does not specify the food or what “something” refers to.
Is “he used to provide me with some food” a sufficiently neutral rendering of this phrase?