Sunan an-Nasa'i 3206

Translation

It was narrated that 'Alqamah said: "I was with Ibn Mas'ud while he was with 'Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, and 'Uthman said: 'The Messenger of Allah came out to some fityah (young men)--Abu 'AbdurRahman said, 'I did not understand (the word) fityah as I would want'-- and said: 'Whoever among you can afford it, let him get married, for it is more effective in lowering the gaze and guarding chastity, and whoever cannot, then fasting will be a restraint (wija') for him.'"

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What scholars said about it

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• Yaḥyá b. Maʿīn

  سئل يحيى بن معين عن حديث أبي معشر فقال خطأ خالفه الأعمش

  machine translationYaḥyā b. Maʿīn was asked about the hadith of Abū Maʿshar, and he said: "A mistake; al-Aʿmash contradicted him." Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 3208
• Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasāʾī

  أبو معشر هذا اسمه زياد بن كليب وهو ثقة وهو صاحب إبراهيم روى عنه منصور ومغيرة وشعبة وأبو معشر المدني اسمه نجيح وهو ضعيف ومع ضعفه أيضا كان قد اختلط عنده أحاديث مناكير

  machine translationThis Abū Maʿshar is named Ziyād b. Kulayb, and he is trustworthy (thiqah). He was a companion of Ibrāhīm. Manṣūr, Mughīrah and Shuʿbah narrated from him. As for Abū Maʿshar al-Madanī, his name is Najīḥ, and he is weak (ḍaʿīf); besides his weakness, his narrations had also become confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he has reprehensible (munkar) hadiths. Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 3208
• Dāraquṭnī

  وسئل عن حديث علقمة عن عبد الله عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم من استطاع منكم الباءة فليتزوج الحديث فقال يرويه الأعمش والمغيرة ومنصور وحماد وأبو حمزة عن إبراهيم عن علقمة عن عبد الله وخالفهم أبو معشر فرواه عن إبراهيم عن علقمة وأسنده عن عثمان بن عفان وقول الأعمش ومن تابعه أصح

  machine translationHe was also asked about the hadith of ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbdullāh, from the Prophet ﷺ: "Whoever among you is able to marry, let him marry" (the hadith). He said: It is narrated by al-Aʿmash, al-Mughīrah, Manṣūr, Ḥammād and Abū Ḥamzah, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbdullāh. Abū Maʿshar contradicted them: he narrated it from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, and traced it back to ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān. The statement of al-Aʿmash and those who followed him is more correct (aṣaḥḥ). Report a problem

  in سنن النسائي, p. 3208

Other narrations of this report

Sunan an-Nasa'i 3207Musnad Ahmad 4112al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 1787Musnad al-Bazzar 1489Musnad al-Bazzar 1517

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān

   One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AH
   عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرة
   فقال
2. 2
   ʿAlqamah b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), jurist, devout worshipperd. 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 65 AH, or 72 AH, or 73 AH, also said: 63 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَثقة ثبت فقيه عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), except that he often narrates with omission of the Companion (irsāl).d. 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 96 AH
   إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة إلا أنه يرسل كثيرا
   عن
4. 4
   Abū Maʿshar

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 110 AH or 117 AH or 119 AH, also said: 120 AH
   أَبِي مَعْشَرٍثقة
   عن
5. 5
   Yūnus

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), virtuous, scrupulous.d. 138 AH, or 139 AH, or 140 AH
   يُونُسُثقة ثبت فاضل ورع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 193 AH, or 194 AH
   إِسْمَاعِيلُثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
7. 7
   ʿAmr b. Zurārah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 238 AH
   عَمْرُو بْنُ زُرَارَةَثقة ثبت
   أخبرنا
8. 8
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.