Sunan Abi Dawud 2135
Dividing (Fairly) Between One's Wives
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ
يَا ابْنَ أُخْتِي كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ يُفَضِّلُ بَعْضَنَا عَلَى بَعْضٍ فِي الْقَسْمِ مِنْ مُكْثِهِ عِنْدَنَا وَكَانَ قَلَّ يَوْمٌ إِلاَّ وَهُوَ يَطُوفُ عَلَيْنَا جَمِيعًا فَيَدْنُو مِنْ كُلِّ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَسِيسٍ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ إِلَى الَّتِي هُوَ يَوْمُهَا فَيَبِيتُ عِنْدَهَا وَلْقَدْ قَالَتْ سَوْدَةُ بِنْتُ زَمْعَةَ حِينَ أَسَنَّتْ وَفَرِقَتْ أَنْ يُفَارِقَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَوْمِي لِعَائِشَةَ فَقَبِلَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْهَا قَالَتْ نَقُولُ فِي ذَلِكَ أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى وَفِي أَشْبَاهِهَا أُرَاهُ قَالَ { وَإِنِ امْرَأَةٌ خَافَتْ مِنْ بَعْلِهَا نُشُوزًا }
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Yūnus
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman / Ibn Abū al-Zinād
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah
- his father
- ʿĀʾishah
On the authority of his father that 'Aishah said: O my nephew, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ did not prefer one of us to the other in respect of his division of the time of his staying with us. It was very rare that he did not visit us any day (i.e. he visited all of us every day). He would come near each of his wives without having intercourse with her until he reached the one who had her day and passed his night with her. When Saudah daughter of Zam'ah became old and feared that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would divorce her, she said: Messenger of Allah, I give to 'Aishah the day you visit me. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ accepted it from her. She said: We think that Allah, the Exalted, revealed about this or similar matter the Qur'anic verse: "If a wife fears cruelty or desertion on her husband's part...." [4:128]
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Good-Soundin صحيح سنن أبي داود, p. 2135 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Good Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 2135 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Isnaad Hasan | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
في إسناده عبد الرحمن بن أبي الزناد وقد تكلم فيه غير واحد ووثقه الإمام مالك بن أنس واستشهد به البخاري رضي الله عنه
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2131 - Mālik b. Anas
وفي إسناده عبد الرحمن بن أبي الزناد وقد تكلم فيه غير واحد ووثقه مالك واستشهد به البخاري لا جرم أخرجه الحاكم في مستدركه بقريب من لفظ أبي داود ثم قال هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد
machine translationIn its chain of transmission is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī al-Zinād, who has been criticized by more than one scholar. Mālik deemed him trustworthy (wathqahu), and al-Bukhārī cited him as corroborating support (istashhada bihi). Hence, al-Ḥākim recorded it in his Mustadrak with wording close to that of Abū Dāwūd, and then said: "This ḥadīth has a sound chain of transmission (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād)."
in سنن أبي داود, p. 2131
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 24395al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 5260al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13565al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14852Musnad Abi Ya'la 4621
Narrators
- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاقالت
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his memory changed when he came to Baghdad, and he was a jurist (faqīh)d. 174 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي الزِّنَادِصدوق ، تغير حفظه لما قدم بغداد ، وكان فقيهانا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 227 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَثقة حافظحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
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