al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14219
✧ The Chapters on Approaching Women
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( أَخْبَرَنَا ) أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أَنْبَأَ أَبُو النَّضْرِ الْفَقِيهُ، وَأَبُو الْحَسَنِ الْعَنَزِيُّ قَالَا: ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْأَصْبَغِ: عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْحَرَّانِيُّ، ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ ثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، عَنْ أَبَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ ابْنَ عُمَرَ وَاللهُ يَغْفِرُ لَهُ وَهِمَ إِنَّمَا كَانَ هَذَا الْحَيُّ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، وَهُمْ أَهْلُ وَثَنٍ مَعَ هَذَا الْحَيِّ مِنْ يَهُودَ وَهُمْ أَهْلُ كِتَابٍ، كَانُوا يَرَوْنَ لَهُمْ فَضْلًا عَلَيْهِمْ، فَكَانُوا يَقْتَدُونَ بِكَثِيرٍ مِنْ فِعْلِهِمْ، وَكَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ أَنْ لَا يَأْتُوا النِّسَاءَ إِلَّا عَلَى حَرْفٍ وَاحِدٍ، وَذَلِكَ أَسْتَرُ مَا تَكُونُ الْمَرْأَةُ وَكَانَ هَذَا الْحَيُّ مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ قَدْ أَخَذُوا بِذَلِكَ مِنْ فِعْلِهِمْ، وَكَانَ هَذَا الْحَيُّ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ يَشْرَحُونَ النِّسَاءَ شَرْحًا مُنْكَرًا، وَيَتَلَذَّذُونَ مِنْهُنَّ مُقْبِلَاتٍ وَمُدْبِرَاتٍ وَمُسْتَلْقِيَاتٍ فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ الْمُهَاجِرُونَ الْمَدِينَةَ، تَزَوَّجَ رَجُلٌ مِنْهُمُ امْرَأَةً مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ، فَذَهَبَ يَصْنَعُ بِهَا ذَلِكَ فَأَنْكَرَتْ عَلَيْهِ وَقَالَتْ: إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نُؤْتَى عَلَى حَرْفٍ فَاصْنَعْ ذَلِكَ، وَإِلَّا فَاجْتَنِبْنِي حَتَّى شَرَى أَمْرُهُمَا، فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَأَنْزَلَ اللهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى نِسَاؤُكُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ أَنَّى شِئْتُمْ مُقْبِلَاتٍ، وَمُدْبِرَاتٍ، وَمُسْتَلْقِيَاتٍ يَعْنِي بِذَلِكَ مَوْضِعَ الْوَلَدِ
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Chain of narrators
- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ Anbaʾ Abū al-Naḍr al-Faqīh and ʾAbū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAnazī
- ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-Dārimī
- Abū al-Aṣbagh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Yaḥyá al-Ḥarrānī
- Muḥammad b. Salamah
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
- Abān b. Ṣāliḥ
- Mujāhid
- Ibn ʿAbbās
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"Ibn ʿUmar—may God forgive him—was mistaken. Rather, this clan of the Anṣār, who were idol-worshippers, lived alongside this clan of the Jews, who were People of the Book. They regarded the Jews as having superiority over them, so they imitated much of what they did. And it was among the practice of the People of the Book that they would approach women only in one manner, which is the most concealing way for a woman. This clan of the Anṣār had adopted that from their practice. As for this clan of Quraysh, they would uncover women in a shameful manner, and take pleasure from them from the front, from behind, and lying on their backs. When the Muhājirūn came to Medina, one of them married a woman of the Anṣār and set about doing that with her. She objected to him and said: 'We were only approached in one manner, so do that, or else keep away from me.' Their matter became serious, and that reached the Prophet ﷺ. So God, Blessed and Exalted, revealed: {Your women are a tilth for you, so come to your tilth however you wish}, from the front, from behind, and lying on the back, meaning by that the place of the child."
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- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AHمُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلمعن
- Deemed trustworthy (wathaqahu) by the Imamsd. 110-odd AHأَبَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍوثقه الأئمةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 191 AH or 192 AH or 193 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقةحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes made errors (wahm)d. 235 AH, Ibn ʿAsākir said: 236 AHأَبُو الْأَصْبَغِ : عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْحَرَّانِيُّصدوق ، ربما وهمحدثنا
- d. 280 AH, or 281 AH, also said: 282 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الدَّارِمِيُّحدثنا
- d. 346 AHوَأَبُو الْحَسَنِ الْعَنَزِيُّأنبأ
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHأَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُأخبرنا
- d. 458 AHالبيهقي
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