Sahih Ibn Hibban 3840

Translation

✧ I asked ‘A’ishah, the wife of the Prophet ﷺ, and said to her: “Have you considered the saying of Allah: ‘Indeed, al-Safa and al-Marwa are among the rites of Allah’ until the end of the verse? By Allah, there is no blame upon anyone not to go between al-Safa and al-Marwa.” ‘A’ishah said: “How bad is what you have said, O son of my sister! If this verse were as you have interpreted it, it would have been: ‘there is no blame upon him not to go between them.’ But it was revealed concerning the Ansar before they embraced Islam. They used to declare the talbiyah for Manat, the false deity whom they used to worship at al-Mushallal, and whoever declared the talbiyah for her used to consider it sinful to go between al-Safa and al-Marwa. When they embraced Islam, they asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about that and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, we used to consider it sinful to go between al-Safa and al-Marwa.’ Then Allah revealed: ‘Indeed, al-Safa and al-Marwa are among the rites of Allah; so whoever performs Hajj of the House or ‘Umrah, there is no blame upon him to go between them.’” ‘A’ishah said: “Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ established the Sunnah of going between them, so it is not for anyone to abandon going between them.”

Notes

• قَالَ الزُّهْرِيُّ أَخْبَرْتُ أَبَا بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ بِالَّذِي حَدَّثَنِي عُرْوَةُ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ فَقَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ إِنَّ هَذَا لَعِلْمٌ وَإِنِّي مَا كُنْتُ سَمِعْتُهُ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُ رِجَالًا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ النَّاسَ إِلَّا مَنْ ذَكَرْتِ عَائِشَةُ مِمَّنْ كَانَ يُهِلُّ لِمَنَاةَ كَانُوا يَطُوفُونَ كُلُّهُمْ بِالصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةِ فَلَمَّا ذَكَرَ اللَّهُ الطَّوَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ فِي الْقُرْآنِ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ الطَّوَافَ بِالصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ ذِكْرُهُ {إِنَّ الصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةَ مِنْ شَعَائِرِ اللَّهِ فَمَنْ حَجَّ الْبَيْتَ أَوِ اعْتَمَرَ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَطَّوَّفَ بِهِمَا} قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ فأَسْمَعُ هَذِهِ نَزَلَتْ فِي الْفَرِيقَيْنِ كِلَيْهِمَا فِي الَّذِينَ كَانُوا يَتَحَرَّجُونَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ أَنْ يَطَّوَّفُوا بِالصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةِ ثُمَّ تَحَرَّجُوا أَنْ يَطَّوَّفُوا بِهِمَا فِي الْإِسْلَامِ مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَمَرَنَا بِالطَّوَافِ بِالْبَيْتِ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرُهُمَا حِينَ ذَكَرَ ذَلِكَ بَعْدَمَا ذَكَرَ الطَّوَافَ بِالْبَيْتِ «

  machine translationAl-Zuhrī said: I informed Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. al-Ḥārith b. Hishām of what ʿUrwah had narrated to me from ʿĀʾishah. Abū Bakr said: This is indeed knowledge, and I had not heard it. I have heard men of knowledge claiming that the people, except those whom ʿĀʾishah mentioned, of those who used to pronounce the talbiyah for Manāt, all used to circumambulate between al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah. So when God mentioned circumambulation of the House in the Quran, and did not mention circumambulation between al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah, God, majestic is His mention, sent down: {إِنَّ الصَّفَا وَالْمَرْوَةَ مِنْ شَعَائِرِ اللَّهِ فَمَنْ حَجَّ الْبَيْتَ أَوِ اعْتَمَرَ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَطَّوَّفَ بِهِمَا}. Abū Bakr said: So I hear that this was revealed concerning both groups: those who felt reluctance in the Jāhiliyyah to circumambulate between al-Ṣafā and al-Marwah, and then felt reluctance to circumambulate between them in Islam, because God had commanded us to circumambulate the House and did not mention the two of them when He mentioned that, after He had mentioned circumambulation of the House. Report a problem

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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2965

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   سألت
2. 2
   ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AH
   عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِثقة فقيه مشهور
   قال
3. 3
   al-Zuhrī

   The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AH
   الزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبته
   عن
4. 4
   Shuʿayb

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 162 AH, or 163 AH
   شُعَيْبُ بْنُ أَبِي حَمْزَةَثقة عابد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 250 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ سَعِيدٍصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydillāh b. al-Faḍl al-Kalāʿī

   d. 309 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ بْنِ الْفَضْلِ الْكَلَاعِيُّ
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

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