Musnad Ahmad 14861

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ said to me: 'O Jabir, do you have a wife?' I said: 'Yes.' He said: 'Did you marry a previously married woman or a virgin?' I said: 'I married a previously married woman.' He said: 'Why not a young girl?' I said: 'My father was killed with you on such-and-such a day, and he left young daughters. I disliked bringing to them a young girl like one of them, so I married a previously married woman who can delouse their heads and sew their dresses if they tear.' He said: 'The Messenger of God ﷺ said: You have done well in what you chose.'

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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
   Nubayh al-ʿAnazī

   acceptable (maqbūl)
   نُبَيْحٍ الْعَنَزِيِّمقبول
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aswad b. Qays

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 131 and 140 AH
   الْأَسْوَدُثقة
   حدثني
4. 4
   ʿAbīdah b. Ḥumayd

   Truthful (ṣadūq), a grammarian (naḥwī); he sometimes made mistakesd. 190 AH
   عَبِيدَةُصدوق ، نحوي . ربما أخطأ
   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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