Sahih al-Bukhari 5066
Whoever is not able to marry, is recommended to fast
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حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عُمَارَةُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ قَالَ
دَخَلْتُ مَعَ عَلْقَمَةَ وَالأَسْوَدِ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ شَبَابًا لاَ نَجِدُ شَيْئًا فَقَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهُ ﷺ يَا مَعْشَرَ الشَّبَابِ مَنِ اسْتَطَاعَ الْبَاءَةَ فَلْيَتَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّهُ أَغَضُّ لِلْبَصَرِ وَأَحْصَنُ لِلْفَرْجِ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَعَلَيْهِ بِالصَّوْمِ فَإِنَّهُ لَهُ وِجَاءٌ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth
- my father
- al-Aʿmash
- ʿUmārah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yazīd
We were with the Prophet ﷺ while we were young and had no wealth. So Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "O young people! Whoever among you can marry, should marry, because it helps him lower his gaze and guard his modesty (i.e. his private parts from committing illegal sexual intercourse etc.), and whoever is not able to marry, should fast, as fasting diminishes his sexual power."
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Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3207Musnad Ahmad 4112al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1787Musnad al-Bazzar 1489Musnad al-Bazzar 1517
Narrators
- One of the earliest and foremost (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), and one of the leading scholars among the Companions; his virtues are manyd. 28 AH, or 32 AH, 33 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمةفقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said: during the governorship of al-Ḥajjāj, before al-Jamājim, Yaḥyā b. Bukayr said: 73 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī: at al-Jamājim 83 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 82 AH, or 98 AH, or 100 AHعُمَارَةُثقة ثبتحدثني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AHأَبِيثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخرحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 222 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍثقة ربما وهمحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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