Sahih Ibn Hibban 4039
✧ The Reproach of Neglecting Struggle when this Nation Struggles in the Cause of God
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي السَّرِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَعْمَرٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ قَالَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ
تَأَيَّمَتْ حَفْصَةُ بِنْتُ عُمَرَ مِنْ خُنَيْسِ بْنِ حُذَافَةَ السَّهْمِيِّ رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ مِمَّنْ شَهِدَ بَدْرًا وَتُوُفِّيَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ قَالَ عُمَرُ فَلَقِيتُ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ فَعَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ حَفْصَةَ فَقُلْتُ إِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْكَحْتُكَ حَفْصَةَ بِنْتَ عُمَرَ فَقَالَ سَأَنْظُرُ فِي ذَلِكَ قَالَ فَلَبِثْتُ لَيَالِيَ فَلَقِيَنِي فَقَالَ مَا أُرِيدُ النِّكَاحَ يَوْمِي هَذَا قَالَ عُمَرُ فَلَقِيتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ فَقُلْتُ إِنْ شِئْتَ أَنْكَحْتُكَ حَفْصَةَ بِنْتَ عُمَرَ قَالَ فَلَمْ يَرْجِعْ إِلَيَّ شَيْئًا فَكُنْتُ أَوْجَدَ عَلَيْهِ مِنِّي عَلَى عُثْمَانَ فَلَبِثْتُ لَيَالِيَ فَخَطَبَهَا إِلَيَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَأَنْكَحْتُهَا إِيَّاهُ فَلَقِيَنِي أَبُو بَكْرٍ فَقَالَ لَعَلَّكَ وَجَدْتَ فِي نَفْسِكَ حِينَ عَرَضْتَ عَلَيَّ حَفْصَةَ فَلَمْ أَرْجِعْ إِلَيْكَ شَيْئًا قَالَ قُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ فَإِنَّهُ «لَمْ يَمْنَعْنِي أَنْ أَرْجِعَ إِلَيْكَ شَيْئًا لَمَّا عَرَضْتَ عَلَيَّ إِلَّا أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَذْكُرُهَا وَلَمْ أَكُنْ أُفْشِي سِرَّ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَلَوْ تَرَكَهَا لَنَكَحْتُهَا»
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Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah
- Ibn Abū al-Sarī
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq
- Maʿmar
- al-Zuhrī
- Sālim
- his father
- ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
✧ Hafsa bt. Umar was widowed from Khunays b. Hudhafa al-Sahmi, a man among the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ who had witnessed Badr and died in Madinah. Umar said: I met Uthman b. Affan and offered Hafsa to him, saying, "If you wish, I will marry you to Hafsa bt. Umar." He said, "I will consider that." He said: I waited some nights, and he met me and said, "I do not want to marry this day of mine." Umar said: I met Abu Bakr and said, "If you wish, I will marry you to Hafsa bt. Umar." He said: He did not give me any reply, and I was more upset with him than with Uthman. I waited some nights, and then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ proposed to her to me, and I married her to him. Abu Bakr met me and said, "Perhaps you felt something in yourself when you offered Hafsa to me and I did not give you any reply." He said: I said, "Yes." He said: "Nothing prevented me from giving you any reply when you offered her to me except that I had heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mention her, and I would not divulge the secret of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Had he left her, I would have married her."
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Narrators
- Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلمفقال
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبقال
- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHأَبِيهِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- He was reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid) and virtuous (fāḍil); he resembled his father in conduct (hady) and demeanor (samt)d. 105 AH or 106 AH or 107 AH or 108 AH, and the correct one is the firstسَالِمٍكان ثبتا عابدا فاضلا ، كان يشبه بأبيه في الهدي والسمتعن
- 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 AHالزُّهْرِيِّالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AHمَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرةأخبرنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AHعَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيعحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) and knowledgeable, but with many errors.d. 238 AHابْنُ أَبِي السَّرِيِّصدوق عارف له أوهام كثيرةحدثنا
- d. 310 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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