Sahih al-Bukhari 5203
The decision of the Prophet ﷺ not to share the beds with his wives and to stay away
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَعْفُورٍ قَالَ تَذَاكَرْنَا عِنْدَ أَبِي الضُّحَى فَقَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ
أَصْبَحْنَا يَوْمًا وَنِسَاءُ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ يَبْكِينَ عِنْدَ كُلِّ امْرَأَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ أَهْلُهَا فَخَرَجْتُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ فَإِذَا هُوَ مَلآنُ مِنَ النَّاسِ فَجَاءَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ فَصَعِدَ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَهْوَ فِي غُرْفَةٍ لَهُ فَسَلَّمَ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ أَحَدٌ ثُمَّ سَلَّمَ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ أَحَدٌ ثُمَّ سَلَّمَ فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ أَحَدٌ فَنَادَاهُ فَدَخَلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ أَطَلَّقْتَ نِسَاءَكَ فَقَالَ لاَ وَلَكِنْ آلَيْتُ مِنْهُنَّ شَهْرًا فَمَكَثَ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ ثُمَّ دَخَلَ عَلَى نِسَائِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh
- Marwān b. Muʿāwiyah
- Abū Yaʿfūr
- Tadhākarnā ʿInd Abū al-Ḍuḥá
- Ibn ʿAbbās
One morning we saw the wives of the Prophet ﷺ weeping, and everyone of them had her family with her, I went to the mosque and found that it was crowded with people. Then ʿUmar bin Al-Khattab came and went up to the Prophet ﷺ who was in his upper room. He greeted him but nobody answered. He greeted again, but nobody answered. Then the gatekeeper called him and he entered upon the Prophet, and asked, "Have you divorced your wives?" The Prophet, said, "No, but I have taken an oath not to go to them for one month." So the Prophet ﷺ stayed away (from his wives) for twenty nine days and then entered upon them.
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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 5182Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2137al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15334
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 الصحابةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. Khalīfah said: died in the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and al-Madāʾinī said: 82 AHأَبِي الضُّحَىثقة فاضلقال
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 141 AH and 150 AHأَبُو يَعْفُورٍثقةحدثنا
- Trustworthy and a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ), though he used to practice concealment (tadlīs) of the names of his teachersd. 193 AHمَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَثقة حافظ ، وكان يدلس أسماء الشيوخحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imāmd. 234 AH, or: 235 AH, also said: 233 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِثقة ثبت إمامحدثنا
- 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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