Sunan Ibn Majah 2028
When a pregnant widow gives birth, it is permissible for her to remarry
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ عَنْ دَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍ عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ وَعَمْرِو بْنِ عُتْبَةَ
أَنَّهُمَا كَتَبَا إِلَى سُبَيْعَةَ بِنْتِ الْحَارِثِ يَسْأَلاَنِهَا عَنْ أَمْرِهَا فَكَتَبَتْ إِلَيْهِمَا إِنَّهَا وَضَعَتْ بَعْدَ وَفَاةِ زَوْجِهَا بِخَمْسَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ فَتَهَيَّأَتْ تَطْلُبُ الْخَيْرَ فَمَرَّ بِهَا أَبُو السَّنَابِلِ بْنُ بَعْكَكٍ فَقَالَ قَدْ أَسْرَعْتِ اعْتَدِّي آخِرَ الأَجَلَيْنِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَعَشْرًا فَأَتَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ اسْتَغْفِرْ لِي قَالَ وَمِمَّ ذَاكَ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ فَقَالَ إِنْ وَجَدْتِ زَوْجًا صَالِحًا فَتَزَوَّجِي
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah
- ʿAlī b. Mushir
- Dāwud b. Abū Hind
- al-Shaʿbī
- Masrūq and ʿAmriw b. ʿUtbah
She wrote to them saying that she gave birth twenty-five days after her husband died. Then she prepared herself, seeking to remarry. Abu Sanabil bin Ba'kak passed by her and said: "You are in a hurry; observe waiting period for the longer period, four months and ten days." "So I went to the Prophet ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of Allah, ﷺ pray for forgiveness for me.' He said: 'Why is that.” I told him (what had happened). He said: 'If you find a righteous husband then marry him."'
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح ابن ماجه, p. 1661 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
يرويه الشعبي واختلف عنه فرواه داود بن أبي هند عن الشعبي عن مسروق وعمرو بن عتبة وكذلك روي عن عمرو بن مرة عن الشعبي وقال إسماعيل بن أبي خالد إن سبيعة كتبت إلى عبد الله بن عتبة والأول أصح
in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2102
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 5320Sunan an-Nasa'i 3506Sunan ad-Darimi 2325al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 21171al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15562al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5675
Narrators
- she was a Companionسُبَيْعَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ الْأَسْلَمِيَّةُلها صحبةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), mukhaḍramd. during the caliphate of ʿUthmānوَعَمْرِو بْنِ عُتْبَةَثقة ، مخضرمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), well-known, a virtuous jurist (faqīh fāḍil)d. 103 AH, said by al-Haytham b. ʿAdī, and Yaḥyā b. Bukayr, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, 104 AH, said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, and Ismāʿīl b. Mujālid, and Abū Nuʿaym, and Muḥammad b. ʿImrān al-Bajalī, and ʿUmar b. Shabīb al-Muslī, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Idrīs, 105 AH, said by Isḥāq b. Yaḥyā, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Numayr, or: 106 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, and ʿAmr b. ʿAlī, 107 AH, said by ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, or: 109 AH, said by Ibn Ḥibbān, 110 AH, said by ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmīالشَّعْبِيِّثقة ، مشهور ، فقيه فاضلعن
- Trustworthy and meticulous (thiqah mutqin), though he would make mistakes (yahim) toward the end of his lifed. 139 AH, or 140 AH, or: 141 AH, also said: 127 AHدَاوُدَ بْنِ أَبِي هِنْدٍثقة متقن ، كان يهم بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), with some odd reports (gharāʾib) after he went blindd. 189 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍثقة له غرائب بعد ما أضرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيفحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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