Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1900
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ الْهُجَيْمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي امْرَأَةً وَإِنَّ أُمِّي تَأْمُرُنِي بِطَلاَقِهَا . قَالَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ " الْوَالِدُ أَوْسَطُ أَبْوَابِ الْجَنَّةِ فَإِنْ شِئْتَ فَأَضِعْ ذَلِكَ الْبَابَ أَوِ احْفَظْهُ " . قَالَ وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ سُفْيَانُ إِنَّ أُمِّي وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ أَبِي . وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ . وَأَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ اسْمُهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn Abi ‘Umar narrated to us: Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from ‘Ata’ ibn al-Sa’ib al-Hujaymi, from Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, from Abu al-Darda’, that a man came to him and said, “I have a wife, and my mother is ordering me to divorce her.” Abu al-Darda’ said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say, “The father is the middle gate of Paradise. If you wish, you may neglect that gate or safeguard it.”
Ibn Abi ‘Umar said: Sufyan sometimes said, “My mother,” and sometimes, “My father.” This hadith is sahih. Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami was named ‘Abd Allah ibn Habib.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness gives the exchange but omits the chain, the variant in which the parent ordering the divorce may be the father rather than the mother, and the narrator identification. The Arabic identifies the narrator as ‘Abd Allah ibn Habib.
حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ،
The English witness omits the chain before Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami and the concluding source notes.
Please review the full isnad and compiler material translated from Arabic.
قَالَ وَقَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ سُفْيَانُ إِنَّ أُمِّي وَرُبَّمَا قَالَ أَبِي .
The Arabic records a variant in which Sufyan sometimes said ‘my mother’ and sometimes ‘my father’; the English witness omits this.
Should the variant in the reported wording be retained?