Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 10467
✧ Exorbitance of the Dowry
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عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْعَجْفَاءِ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ قَالَ:
لَا تُغَالُوا فِي صُدُقِ النِّسَاءِ، فَإِنَّهَا لَوْ كَانَتْ مَكْرُمَةً فِي الدُّنْيَا وَتَقْوَى عِنْدَ اللهِ كَانَ أَوْلَاكُمْ بِهَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ، مَا أُصْدِقَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ نِسَائِهِ وَلَا مِنْ بَنَاتِهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنِ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ أُوقِيَّةً. فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ يُغْلِي بِالْمَرْأَةِ فِي صَدَاقِهَا فَيَكُونُ حَسْرَةً فِي صَدْرِهِ، فَيَقُولُ: كَلِفْتُ إِلَيْكِ عَلَقَ الْقِرْبَةِ، قَالَ: فَكُنْتُ غُلَامًا مُوَلَّدًا لَمْ أَدْرِ مَا هَذِهِ ؟ قَالَ: وَأُخْرَى يَقُولُونَ لِمَنْ قُتِلَ فِي مَغَازِيكُمْ هَذِهِ: قُتِلَ فُلَانٌ شَهِيدًا أَوْ مَاتَ فُلَانٌ شَهِيدًا، وَلَعَلَّهُ يَكُونُ قَدْ خَرَجَ قَدْ أَوْقَرَ دَفَّ رَاحِلَتِهِ، أَوْ عَجُزَهَا وَرِقًا يَطْلُبُ التِّجَارَةَ، وَلَكِنْ قُولُوا كَمَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: " مَنْ قُتِلَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ أَوْ مَاتَ فَلَهُ الْجَنَّةُ
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machine translationʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Maʿmar, from Ayyūb, from Ibn Sīrīn, from Abū al-ʿAjfāʾ, that ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb said:
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Do not be excessive in the dowries of women, for if it were an honor in this world and piety in the sight of God, the one most deserving of it among you would have been the Prophet ﷺ. No woman among his wives or his daughters was given a dowry of more than twelve ūqiyyah. A man may inflate the dowry of a woman until it becomes a source of regret in his heart, and he says: "I have borne hardship for you to the point of the water-skin's strap." He said: I was a born slave-boy (muwallad) and did not know what this meant. He said: And another thing: you say of those who are killed in these expeditions of yours, "So-and-so was killed as a martyr," or "So-and-so died as a martyr," when perhaps he had set out with the side of his mount, or its rear, loaded down with silver, seeking trade. But say as the Messenger of God ﷺ said: "Whoever is killed in the cause of God, or dies, will have Paradise."
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