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
- Isḥāq
- Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah
- 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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Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 17663Musnad Ahmad 23164Musnad Ahmad 23165Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 17981Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 12597
Narrators
- Commander of the Faithful (amīr al-muʾminīn), well-known, of abundant virtues (jamm al-manāqib)d. 23 AH, also said: 24 AHعُمَر بْن الْخَطَّابأمير المؤمنين مشهور جم المناقبفي حكم العنعنة
- It is said: he has companionship (ṣuḥbah)أَبَاهُيقال : له صحبةفي حكم العنعنة
- Trustworthy (thiqah), narrated much hadithd. 126 AH or 127 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي يَزِيدَثقة كثير الحديثسمع
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AHسُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقاتأخبرنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
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