al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3770

Translation

✧ A woman stretched out her hand to the Prophet ﷺ with a letter, and he withdrew his hand. She said, “O Messenger of God, I stretched out my hand to you with a letter, and you did not take it.” He said, “I do not know whether it is the hand of a woman or the hand of a man.” She said, “Rather, it is the hand of a woman.” He said, “If you were a woman, you would have dyed your nails with henna.”

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• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  هذا حديث منكر

  machine translationThis is a rejected (munkar) hadith. Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 3770
• ابن عدي

  غير محفوظ

  machine translationNot preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ). Report a problem

  in المعجم الأوسط, p. 3770

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4166Sunan an-Nasa'i 5089

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿĀʾishah bt. Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AH
   عَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقا
   عن
2. 2
   Ṣafiyyah bt. ʿIṣmah

   she is not known
   صَفِيَّةُ بِنْتُ عِصْمَةَلا تعرف
   حدثتنا
3. 3
   Muṭīʿ b. Maymūn

   weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)d. between 161 AH and 170 AH
   مُطِيعُ بْنُ مَيْمُونٍلين الحديث
   نا
4. 4
   Muʿallā b. Asad

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH according to the correct view, or: 219 AH
   مُعَلَّى بْنُ أَسَدٍ الْعَمِّيُّثقة ثبت
   نا
5. 5
   ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz

   d. 286 AH, and it is said: 287 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Ṭabarānī

   d. 360 AH
   الطبراني

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