Musnad Ahmad 26873

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in my house when a bedouin came and said: O Messenger of Allah, I had a wife and I married another woman in addition to her. My first wife claimed that she suckled my new wife one or two times—and he said once: one or two sucklings. He said: One or two sucklings do not make marriage prohibited—or he said: one or two sucklings.

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  حديث المصتان جاء أيضا من طرق صحيحة لكن قد قال بعضهم إنه مضطرب لأنه اختلف فيه هل هو عن عائشة أو عن الزبير أو عن ابن الزبير أو عن أم الفضل

  machine translationThe hadith of the two sucklings (al-maṣṣatān) has also come through authentic chains, but some have said that it is inconsistent (muḍṭarib), because there is disagreement over whether it is from ʿĀʾishah, or from al-Zubayr, or from Ibn al-Zubayr, or from Umm al-Faḍl. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 27461
• Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyá b. Sharaf al-Nawawī

  واعترضت الشافعية على المالكية بحديث المصة والمصتان وأجابوا عنه بأجوبة باطلة لا ينبغي ذكرها لكن ننبه عليها خوفا من الاغترار بها منها أن بعضهم ادعى أنها منسوخة وهذا باطل لا يثبت بمجرد الدعوى ومنها أن بعضهم زعم أنه موقوف على عائشة وهذا خطأ فاحش بل قد ذكره مسلم وغيره من طرق صحاح مرفوعا من رواية عائشة ومن رواية أم الفضل ومنها أن بعضهم زعم أنه مضطرب وهذا غلط ظاهر وجسارة على رد السنن بمجرد الهوى وتوهين صحيحها لنصرة المذاهب

  machine translationThe Shāfiʿīs objected to the Mālikīs with the hadith of the single suckling and the two sucklings, and they answered it with false answers that should not be mentioned, but we point them out for fear that people be deceived by them. Among them is that some claimed it was abrogated, and this is false; it is not established by mere claim. Among them is that some alleged that it is a statement halted at ʿĀʾishah (mawqūf), and this is a gross error; rather, Muslim and others reported it through sound chains as a raised report (marfūʿ) from ʿĀʾishah and from Umm al-Faḍl. Among them is that some alleged that it is inconsistent (muḍṭarib), and this is an obvious mistake and a reckless rejection of the Sunnah by mere whim, and a weakening of what is authentic in order to support the schools of law. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 27461

Narrators

1. 1
   Lubābah bt. al-Ḥārith al-Hilālīyah

   early in her acceptance of Islamd. she died before al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, in ʿUthmān's caliphate
   لُبَابَة بِنْت الحَارِث الهِلَالِيَّةقديم إسلامها
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥārith b. Nawfal

   Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: They are unanimously agreed upon his trustworthiness (thiqah).d. 62 AH, or 79 AH, or 83 AH, or 84 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْهَاشِمِيِّقال ابن عبد البر : أجمعوا على ثقته
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Khalīl

   Ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī declared him trustworthy (thiqah), and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr made a strange claim, saying: he is not to be used as evidence.d. between 91 and 100 AH
   أَبِي الْخَلِيلِوثقه ابن معين والنسائي ، وأغرب ابن عبد البر فقال : لا يحتج به
   عن
4. 4
   Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an authority (ḥujjah), one of the leading jurists and devout worshippersd. 130 AH, or 131 AH, or 132 AH, also said: 124 AH, also said: 125 AH, also said: 129 AH
   أَيُّوبُثقة ثبت حجة ، من كبار الفقهاء العباد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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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