Sahih al-Bukhari 5069
About (marrying) several women
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ الأَنْصَارِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ رَقَبَةَ عَنْ طَلْحَةَ الْيَامِيِّ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ قَالَ
قَالَ لِي ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ هَلْ تَزَوَّجْتَ قُلْتُ لاَ قَالَ فَتَزَوَّجْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ هَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ أَكْثَرُهَا نِسَاءً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī
- Abū ʿAwānah
- Raqabah
- Ṭalḥah al-Yāmī
- Saʿīd b. Jubayr
Ibn ʿAbbas asked me, "Are you married?" I replied, "No." He said, "Marry, for the best person of this (Muslim) nation (i.e., Muhammad) of all other Muslims, had the largest number of wives."
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 3507al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12345al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12431al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 12497al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 2662al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 13580
Narrators
- 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 الصحابةقال لي
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh); his narration from ʿĀʾishah, Abū Mūsā and the like is mursald. 95 AH, from al-Fallās: 94 AHسَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a Qurʾān reciter, virtuousd. 110 AH, or: 112 AH, or: 113 AHطَلْحَةَ الْيَامِيِّثقة قارئ فاضلعن
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 129 AHرَقَبَةَثقة مأمونعن
- trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AHأَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), narrates unusual reports (yughrib)d. 226 AH, also said: 220 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّثقة يغربحدثنا
- 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
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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