al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 970
✧ Ahmad b. Mas'ud al-Maqdisi
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وَبِهِ: نَا زُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ. عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ:
الْمَرْأَةُ كَالضِّلَعِ، إِنْ أَقَمْتَهَا كَسَرْتَهَا، وَإِنْ تَرَكْتَهَا اسْتَمْتَعْتَ بِهَا عَلَى عِوَجٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zuhayr b. Muḥammad
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah
- his father
- ʿĀʾishah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ The woman is like a rib; if you straighten her, you break her, and if you leave her, you enjoy her despite her crookedness.
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Narrators
- 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
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), well-known (mashhūr)d. 91 AH, or 92, or 93 AH, or 94 AH, or 95 AH, or 99 AH, or 100 AH, or 101 AHأَبِيهِثقة فقيه مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), except that the narrations of the people of Syria from him are not sound (ghayr mustaqīmah), and he was therefore declared weak (ḍuʿʿifa) because of them.d. 162 AHزُهَيْرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍثقة ، إلا أن رواية أهل الشام عنه غير مستقيمة ، فضعف بسببهانا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعمرو بن أبي سلمة التنيسيصدوق له أوهامنا
- d. between 271 AH and 280 AHأحمد بن مسعود المقدسيحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.