Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1114
حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْخَلاَّلُ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عِيسَى، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ نَافِعٍ الصَّائِغُ، قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي حَازِمِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ السَّاعِدِيِّ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم جَاءَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ فَقَالَتْ إِنِّي وَهَبْتُ نَفْسِي لَكَ . فَقَامَتْ طَوِيلاً فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ فَزَوِّجْنِيهَا إِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ لَكَ بِهَا حَاجَةٌ . فَقَالَ " هَلْ عِنْدَكَ مِنْ شَيْءٍ تُصْدِقُهَا " . فَقَالَ مَا عِنْدِي إِلاَّ إِزَارِي هَذَا . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِزَارَكَ إِنْ أَعْطَيْتَهَا جَلَسْتَ وَلاَ إِزَارَ لَكَ فَالْتَمِسْ شَيْئًا " قَالَ مَا أَجِدُ . قَالَ " فَالْتَمِسْ وَلَوْ خَاتَمًا مِنْ حَدِيدٍ " . قَالَ فَالْتَمَسَ فَلَمْ يَجِدْ شَيْئًا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " هَلْ مَعَكَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ شَيْءٌ " . قَالَ نَعَمْ سُورَةُ كَذَا وَسُورَةُ كَذَا . لِسُوَرٍ سَمَّاهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " زَوَّجْتُكَهَا بِمَا مَعَكَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ . وَقَدْ ذَهَبَ الشَّافِعِيُّ إِلَى هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَقَالَ إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ شَيْءٌ يُصْدِقُهَا وَتَزَوَّجَهَا عَلَى سُورَةٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَالنِّكَاحُ جَائِزٌ وَيُعَلِّمُهَا سُورَةً مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ . وَقَالَ بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ النِّكَاحُ جَائِزٌ وَيَجْعَلُ لَهَا صَدَاقَ مِثْلِهَا . وَهُوَ قَوْلُ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ وَأَحْمَدَ وَإِسْحَاقَ
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Khallal narrated to us: Ishaq ibn Isa and Abdullah ibn Nafi al-Sa'igh narrated to us; they said: Malik ibn Anas informed us, from Abu Hazim ibn Dinar, from Sahl ibn Sa'd al-Sa'idi: A woman came to the Messenger of Allah and said: I offer myself to you. She stood for a long time. A man said: Messenger of Allah, marry her to me if you have no need of her. He said: Do you have anything to give her as a dowry? The man said: I have nothing except this waist wrapper of mine. The Messenger of Allah said: If you give her your waist wrapper, you will be left sitting with no waist wrapper. Go and look for something. The man said: I can find nothing. He said: Look for something, even an iron ring. The man searched but found nothing. The Messenger of Allah said: Do you have anything of the Quran with you? He said: Yes, such-and-such surah and such-and-such surah, naming some surahs. The Messenger of Allah said: I marry her to you for what you have of the Quran. Abu Isa said: This hadith is hasan sahih. Al-Shafi'i followed this hadith and said that if a man has nothing to give her as a dowry and marries her in exchange for a surah of the Quran, the marriage is valid and he should teach her a surah of the Quran. Some scholars said the marriage is valid and he should assign her a customary dowry. This was the view of the people of Kufa, Ahmad, and Ishaq.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report gives two unnamed surah titles as such-and-such; the source then says the man named some surahs. The waist wrapper is translated literally.
لِسُوَرٍ سَمَّاهَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " زَوَّجْتُكَهَا بِمَا مَعَكَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ " .
The phrase can be understood as the Quran he has memorized or knows, and the compiler notes the view that he is to teach her a surah.
Should the marriage wording be rendered as an exchange for his Quran knowledge, or remain as phrased in the Arabic?