al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1944
✧ Encouragement to Marry a Woman of Religion and the Envy of One Who Has a Believing Wife
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وَقَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ، ثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ، عَنْ زُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَزْمٍ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
« إِنَّمَا النِّسَاءُ لُعَبٌ، فَمَنِ اتَّخَذَ لُعْبَةً فَلْيُحَسِّنْهَا، أَوْ فَلْيَسْتَحْسِنْهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- Muḥammad b. Yazīd
- ʿĪsá b. Yūnus
- Zuhayr b. Muḥammad
- Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. Ḥazm
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ Women are but playthings; whoever takes a plaything, let him improve it or choose it well.
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Narrators
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 100 AH, or 110 AH, or 117 AH, or 120 AH, also said: 126 AHأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْخَزْرَجِيُّثقة عابدعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AHزُهَيْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببهاعن
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah maʾmūn)d. 187 AH, or 188 AH, or 191 AHعِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَثقة مأمونحدثنا
- not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī)d. 220 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَليس بالقويحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.