Sahih al-Bukhari 5241

Translation

The Prophet ﷺ said, "A woman should not look at or touch another woman to describe her to her husband in such a way as if he was actually looking at her."

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 3099وَعَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تُبَاشِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَتَنْعَتُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ ينظر إِلَيْهَا»
• Shahih al-Bukhari 5240لاَ تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَتَنْعَتَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 684Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2792Musnad Ahmad 3609Musnad Ahmad 4395al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1565Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 1119

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

   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 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍمن السابقين الأولين ، ومن كبار العلماء من الصحابة ، مناقبه جمة
   سمعت
2. 2
   Shaqīq b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 82 AH, Ibn Mandah said: 99 AH
   شَقِيقٌثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   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 AH
   الْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AH
   أَبِيثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخر
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 222 AH
   عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍثقة ربما وهم
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   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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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.