Sahih al-Bukhari 5232
A man should not stay with a woman in seclusion
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حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا لَيْثٌ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْخَيْرِ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
إِيَّاكُمْ وَالدُّخُولَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَفَرَأَيْتَ الْحَمْوَ قَالَ الْحَمْوُ الْمَوْتُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- Layth
- Yazīd b. Abū Ḥabīb
- Abū al-Khayr
- ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Beware of entering upon the ladies." A man from the Ansar said, "Allah's Apostle! What about Al-Hamu the in-laws of the wife (the brothers of her husband or his nephews etc.)?" The Prophet ﷺ replied: The in-laws of the wife are death itself.
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 3102وَعَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " إِيَّاكُمْ وَالدُّخُولَ عَلَى النِّسَاءِ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَرَأَيْتَ الْحَمْوَ؟ قَالَ: «الْحَمْوُ الْمَوْتُ»
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2172bMusnad Ahmad 17396Sunan ad-Darimi 2684al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15861al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 15864al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 737
Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, or: close to 60 AHعُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ بْنِ عَبْسٍ الْفَرَضِيُّصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 90 AHأَبِي الْخَيْرِثقة فقيهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AHيَزِيدَ بْنِ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHلَيْثٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
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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