Musnad Ahmad 285
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ حَدَّثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ نُبِّئْتُ عَنْ أَبِي الْعَجْفَاءِ السُّلَمِيِّ
أَلَا لَا تُغْلُوا صُدُقَ النِّسَاءِ، أَلَا لَا تُغْلُوا صُدُقَ النِّسَاءِ، فَإِنَّهَا لَوْ كَانَتْ مَكْرُمَةً فِي الدُّنْيَا أَوْ تَقْوَى عِنْدَ اللهِ كَانَ أَوْلَاكُمْ بِهَا النَّبِيُّ ﷺ؛ مَا أَصْدَقَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ امْرَأَةً مِنْ نِسَائِهِ، وَلَا أُصْدِقَتِ امْرَأَةٌ مِنْ بَنَاتِهِ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ثِنْتَيْ عَشْرَةَ أُوقِيَّةً، وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُبْتَلَى بِصَدُقَةِ امْرَأَتِهِ، وَقَالَ مَرَّةً: وَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيُغْلِي بِصَدُقَةِ امْرَأَتِهِ حَتَّى تَكُونَ لَهَا عَدَاوَةٌ فِي نَفْسِهِ، وَحَتَّى يَقُولَ: كَلِفْتُ إِلَيْكِ عَلَقَ الْقِرْبَةِ، قَالَ: وَكُنْتُ غُلَامًا عَرَبِيًّا مُوَلَّدًا لَمْ أَدْرِ مَا عَلَقُ الْقِرْبَةِ. قَالَ: وَأُخْرَى تَقُولُونَهَا لِمَنْ قُتِلَ فِي مَغَازِيكُمْ، [أَوْ مَاتَ] قُتِلَ فُلَانٌ شَهِيدًا، أَوْ مَاتَ فُلَانٌ شَهِيدًا، وَلَعَلَّهُ أَنْ يَكُونَ قَدْ أَوْقَرَ عَجُزَ دَابَّتِهِ، أَوْ دَفَّ رَاحِلَتِهِ ذَهَبًا، أَوْ وَرِقًا يَلْتَمِسُ التِّجَارَةَ لَا تَقُولُوا ذَاكُمْ، وَلَكِنْ قُولُوا كَمَا قَالَ النَّبِيُّ - أَوْ كَمَا قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ ﷺ: - مَنْ قُتِلَ، أَوْ مَاتَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ، فَهُوَ فِي الْجَنَّةِ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ismāʿīl
- Salamah b. ʿAlqamah
- Muḥammad b. Sīrīn
- Nubbiʾt
- Abū al-ʿAjfāʾ al-Sulamī
✧ Beware of charging excessive dowries for women, beware of charging excessive dowries for women. If it were a source of honor in this world or piety before God, the Prophet ﷺ would have been foremost among you in it. The Messenger of God ﷺ never paid more than twelve uqiyyahs as a dowry for any of his wives, nor was any of his daughters given a dowry of more than twelve uqiyyahs. A man is indeed tested by the dowry of his wife, and he said once: A man indeed raises the dowry of his wife excessively until she becomes an enemy in his heart, and until he says, 'I have burdened myself for you with the strap of the waterskin.'" He said: "I was a young Arab born in Madinah, and I did not know what 'the strap of the waterskin' meant." He said: "And another thing you say about those killed in your battles, [or who died]: 'So-and-so was killed as a martyr,' or 'So-and-so died as a martyr,' when perhaps he had loaded the back of his beast, or the saddle of his mount, with gold or silver seeking trade. Do not say that, but say as the Prophet said—or as Muhammad ﷺ said—'Whoever is killed or dies in the cause of God is in Paradise.'
Grades by grader
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
هو حديث حسن
machine translationIt is a good (ḥasan) hadith.
in مسند أحمد, p. 285 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
أبو العجفاء اسمه هرم بن نسيب قال يحيى بن معين بصري ثقة وقال البخاري وفي حديثه نظر وقال أبو أحمد الكرابيسي حديثه ليس بالقائم
machine translationAbū al-ʿAjfāʾ's name is Haram b. Nusayb. Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said: a Basran, trustworthy (thiqah). Al-Bukhārī said: there is something to consider in his hadith (fī ḥadīthihi naẓar). Abū Aḥmad al-Karābīsī said: his hadith is not firm (laysa bi-l-qāʾim).
in مسند أحمد, p. 285
Other narrations of this report
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبسمعت
- acceptable (maqbūl)d. after 90 AHأَبِي الْعَجْفَاءِ ج١ / ص٩٨السُّلَمِيِّمقبولنبئت
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid), of great standing; he did not permit narration by meaning.d. 110 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَثقة ثبت عابد كبير القدر ، كان لا يرى الرواية بالمعنىعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 139 AHسَلَمَةُ بْنُ عَلْقَمَةَثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AHإِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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 viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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