al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6712
✧ Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Kaysan al-Missisi
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وَبِهِ، عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ
أَنَّ امْرَأَةً مَدَّتْ يَدَهَا بِكِتَابٍ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَقَبَضَ يَدَهُ عَنْهَا، فَقَالَتْ: لِمَ قَبَضْتَ يَدَكَ عَنِّي ؟ فَقَالَ: " رَجُلٌ أَوِ امْرَأَةٌ ؟ " قَالَتِ: امْرَأَةٌ. قَالَ: لَوْ كُنْتِ امْرَأَةً غَيَّرْتِ أَظْفَارَكِ بِالْحِنَّاءِ
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- Ṣafiyyah
- ʿĀʾishah
✧ A woman extended her hand with a letter to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he withheld his hand from her. She said, 'Why did you withhold your hand from me?' He said, 'A man or a woman?' She said, 'A woman.' He said, 'If you were a woman, you would have changed your nails with henna.'
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- Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
هذا حديث منكر
machine translationThis is a rejected (munkar) hadith.
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 6712 - ابن عدي
غير محفوظ
machine translationNot preserved (ghayr maḥfūẓ).
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 6712
Other narrations of this report
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- Mother of the Believers, the most knowledgeable woman in jurisprudence absolutely (afqah al-nisāʾ muṭlaqan)d. 57 AH, or 58 AHعَائِشَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقِأم المؤمنين ، أفقه النساء مطلقاعن
- she is not knownصَفِيَّةَلا تعرفعن
- weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)d. between 161 AH and 170 AHمطيع بن ميمون العنبريلين الحديثحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 210 AH or 216 AHحبان بن هلال الباهليثقة ثبتحدثنا
- محمد بن الحسنحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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