Musnad Ahmad 18154

Translation

✧ I asked for a woman in marriage, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: "Did you look at her?" I said: "No." He said: "Then look at her, for that is more likely to create affection between you two."

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 3107وَعَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ قَالَ خَطَبْتُ امْرَأَةً فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «هَلْ نَظَرْتَ إِلَيْهَا؟» قُلْتُ: لَا قَالَ: «فَانْظُرْ إِلَيْهَا فَإِنَّهُ أَحْرَى أَنْ يُؤْدَمَ بَيْنَكُمَا». رَوَا

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3234

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah

   A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before al-Ḥudaybiyyah.d. 49 AH, or: 50 AH, and al-Khaṭīb reported consensus on that, or: 56 AH, in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl: some said 36 AH, 58 AH, and both are errors
   المُغِيرَة بن شُعْبَةصحابي مشهور ، أسلم قبل الحديبية
   عن
2. 2
   Bakr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly established (thabt), eminent (jalīl).d. 106 AH or 108 AH
   بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت جليل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿĀṣim b. Sulaymān al-Aḥwal

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AH
   عَاصِمٌثقة
   حدثنا
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
   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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Mishkat al-Masabih 3107