Sunan Abi Dawud 2048

Translation

Jabir bin ‘Abd Allah said “The Apostle of Allaah ﷺ said to me “Did you marry?” I said “Yes”. He again said “Virgin or Non Virgin (woman previously married)?” I said “Non Virgin”. He said “Why (did you) not (marry) a virgin with whom you could sport and she could sport with you.

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Sunan an-Nasa'i 3226Sunan ad-Darimi 2262Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 17990al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5313al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5322

Narrators

1. 1
   Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
   جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Sālim b. Abī al-Jaʿd al-Ghaṭafānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), but he used to narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) frequentlyd. 99 AH, Muṭayyan said: 100 AH, also said: 101 AH. Abū Nuʿaym said: 97 AH or 98 AH, and Ibn Ḥibbān said likewise in al-Thiqāt
   سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِثقة وكان يرسل كثيرا
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   أنا
4. 4
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   نا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.