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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
  1. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥakam al-Anṣārī
  2. Abū ʿAwānah
  3. Raqabah
  4. Ṭalḥah al-Yāmī
  5. 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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Narrators

  1. 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 AH
    عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابة
    قال لي
  2. 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 AH
    سَعِيدِ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة ثبت فقيه ، وروايته عن عائشة وأبي موسى ونحوهما مرسلة
    عن
  3. Trustworthy (thiqah), a Qurʾān reciter, virtuousd. 110 AH, or: 112 AH, or: 113 AH
    طَلْحَةَ الْيَامِيِّثقة قارئ فاضل
    عن
  4. trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 129 AH
    رَقَبَةَثقة مأمون
    عن
  5. trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah thabt), from the seventh generation (ṭabaqah)d. 175, or 176 AH
    أَبُو عَوَانَةَثقة ثبت ، من السابعة
    حدثنا
  6. trustworthy (thiqah), narrates unusual reports (yughrib)d. 226 AH, also said: 220 AH
    عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّثقة يغرب
    حدثنا
  7. 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 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل 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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