Musnad Ahmad 14237

Translation

✧ I married a woman during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he said, "O Jābir, have you married?" I said, "Yes." He said, "A virgin or a previously married woman?" I said, "A previously married woman." He said, "Why not a virgin, so you could play with her?" I said, "O Messenger of Allah, I have sisters, and I feared that she would come between me and them." He said, "A woman is married for her religion, her wealth, and her beauty; so choose the one with religion, may your hands be dusty."

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• Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī

  رجاله رجال الصحيح

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 14388

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3226

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
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AH
   عَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منه
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Malik

   Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 145 AH or 147 AH
   عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِصدوق له أوهام
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Isḥāq b. Yūsuf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 194 AH, or 195 AH, or 196 AH
   وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ الْأَزْرَقُثقة
   حدثنا
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
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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