Sunan an-Nasa'i 3235
It Is Permissible To Look Before Marriage
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ أَبِي رِزْمَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ عَنْ بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْمُزَنِيِّ عَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ قَالَ
خَطَبْتُ امْرَأَةً عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَنَظَرْتَ إِلَيْهَا قُلْتُ لاَ قَالَ فَانْظُرْ إِلَيْهَا فَإِنَّهُ أَجْدَرُ أَنْ يُؤْدَمَ بَيْنَكُمَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abū Rizmah
- Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth
- ʿĀṣim
- Bakr b. ʿAbdullāh al-Muzanī
- al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah
It was narrated that Al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah said: "I proposed marriage to a woman during the time of the Messenger of Allah, and the Prophet said: 'Have you seen her?' I said: 'No.' He said: 'Look at her, for that is more likely to create love between you.'"
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Ghuddah | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Soundin صحيح النسائي, p. 3235 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
| ابن الملقن | Soundin سنن النسائي, p. 3237 | hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- M. ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī
صححه
machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu).
in سنن النسائي, p. 3237
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3234Sahih Ibn Hibban 4044al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5332al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5336
Narrators
- A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before al-Ḥudaybiyyah.d. 49 AH, or: 50 AH, and al-Khaṭīb reported consensus on that, or: 56 AH, in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl: some said 36 AH, 58 AH, and both are errorsالمُغِيرَة بن شُعْبَةصحابي مشهور ، أسلم قبل الحديبيةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly established (thabt), eminent (jalīl).d. 106 AH or 108 AHبَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْمُزَنِيِّثقة ثبت جليلعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 143 AHعَاصِمٌثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), whose memory changed slightly toward the end of his lifed. 194 AH, also said: 195 AH, or 196 AHحَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍثقة فقيه ، تغير حفظه قليلا في الآخرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 241 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ أَبِي رِزْمَةَثقةأخبرنا
- the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AHالنَّسَائِيُّالحافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.
Commentaries
Ḥāshiyat al-Suyūṭī on Tirmidhī
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Nasāʾī
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