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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2057

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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، قَالَ: سَمِعَ عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي يَزِيدَ أَبَاهُ يَقُولُ:

أَرْسَلَ عُمَرُ ؓ إِلَى رَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي زُهْرَةَ، وَهُوَ فِي الْحِجْرِ، قَالَ: فَذَهَبْتُ مَعَهُ إِلَيْهِ، وَقَدْ أَدْرَكَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةَ، فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ وِلَادٍ مِنْ وِلَادِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ. قَالَ سُفْيَانُ: وَكَانَ أَهْلُ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ لَيْسَ لِنِسَائِهِمْ عِدَّةٌ، إِذَا مَاتَ الرَّجُلُ انْطَلَقَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ فَنُكِحَتْ وَلَمْ تَعْتَدَّ. قَالَ: فَسَأَلَهُ عَنِ النُّطْفَةِ، فَقَالَ: أَمَّا النُّطْفَةُ فَمِنْ فُلَانٍ، وَأَمَّا الْوَلَدُ فَعَلَى فِرَاشِ فُلَانٍ. فَقَالَ عُمَرُ ؓ: « صَدَقَ، وَلَكِنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَضَى بِالْوَلَدِ لِلْفِرَاشِ ». فَلَمَّا أَدْبَرَ الرَّجُلُ قَالَ

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Chain of narrators
  1. Isḥāq
  2. Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
  3. ʿUbaydullāh b. Abū Yazīd Abāh

✧ Umar ؓ sent for a man from Banu Zuhrah while he was in al-Hijr. He said: I went with him to him, and he had reached [the time of] the Jahiliyyah. He asked him about a child born in the Jahiliyyah. Sufyan said: The people of the Jahiliyyah had no waiting period for their women. When a man died, the woman would go and be married without observing a waiting period. He said: He asked him about the sperm-drop. He said: As for the sperm-drop, it is from so-and-so; but the child belongs to the bed of so-and-so. Umar ؓ said: “He has spoken the truth, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ruled that the child belongs to the bed.” When the man turned away, he said...

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