al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1972
✧ Permissibility of Concealing Certain Defects of a Woman That Do Not Establish the Option of Annulment
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قَالَ الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ، نَبَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي خَالِدٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ قَالَ: إِنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ فَقَالَ:
إِنَّ لِي ابْنَةً وَأَدْتُهَا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، وَإِنِّي اسْتَخْرَجْتُهَا فَأَسْلَمَتْ فَأَصَابَتْ حَدًّا، فَعَمَدَتْ إِلَى الشَّفْرَةِ فَذَبَحَتْ نَفْسَهَا، فَأَدْرَكْتُهَا وَقَدْ قَطَعَتْ بَعْضَ أَوْدَاجِهَا، فَدَاوَيْتُهَا فَبَرَأَتْ، ثُمَّ إِنَّهَا نَسَكَتْ، فَأَقْبَلَتْ عَلَى الْقُرْآنِ. وَإِنَّهَا تُخْطَبُ إِلَيَّ، فَتَمْنَعُنِي مِنْ شَأْنِهَا الَّذِي كَانَ. فَقَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ: « تَعْمِدُ إِلَى سَتْرٍ سَتَرَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى فَتَكْشِفُهُ ؟ لَئِنْ بَلَغَنِي أَنَّكَ ذَكَرْتَ مِنْ شَأْنِهَا شَيْئًا لَأَجْعَلَنَّكَ نَكَالًا لِأَهْلِ الْأَمْصَارِ، بَلْ أَنْكِحْهَا نِكَاحَ الْعَفِيفَةِ الْمُسْلِمَةِ
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Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥārith
- Yazīd Nabā Ismāʿīl b. Abū Khālid
- al-Shaʿbī
- In a man Atá ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
✧ A man said to Umar ؓ: 'I have a daughter whom I buried alive in the Jahiliyyah, and I brought her out and she became Muslim. Then she committed a sin punishable by a hadd, so she took a knife and slaughtered herself. I reached her after she had cut some of her jugular veins, so I treated her and she recovered. Then she became devout and devoted herself to the Quran. Now she is being proposed to, but what happened to her prevents me [from mentioning it].' Umar ؓ said: 'Would you intend to uncover a cover that Allah Almighty has concealed? If I learn that you mention anything of her affair, I will make you an example for the people of the cities. Rather, marry her off as a chaste Muslim woman.'
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