Muwatta' Malik 28-1
Asking for Someone's Hand in Marriage
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حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَبَّانَ عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ
لاَ يَخْطُبُ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى خِطْبَةِ أَخِيهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá
- Mālik
- Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Ḥabbān
- al-Aʿraj
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Do not ask for a woman in marriage when another muslim has already done so."
Grades by grader
| Mālik b. Anas | Sound | hadithunlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Salim al-Hilali | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr
هذا حديث صحيح
machine translationThis is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
in موطأ مالك, p. 1040
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 9951Sahih Ibn Hibban 4047Sahih Ibn Hibban 4051al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14141al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14147al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5340
Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AHالْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالمعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 121 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَبَّانَثقة فقيهعن
- The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AHمَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
al-Tamhīd (Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr)
al-Istidhkār
Sharḥ al-Zarqāni (ʿAbd al-Bāqī)
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