Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1184

Translation

The Messenger of Allah said: "Three are serious when they are serious, and serious when they are in jest: Marriage, divorce, and return."

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ وَالْعَمَلُ عَلَى هَذَا عِنْدَ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ وَغَيْرِهِمْ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ هُوَ ابْنُ حَبِيبِ بْنِ أَرْدَكَ الْمَدَنِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاهَكَ هُوَ عِنْدِي يُوسُفُ بْنُ مَاهَكَ

  machine translationAbū ʿĪsā said: This is a good and strange (ḥasan gharīb) hadith, and the practice accords with this among the people of knowledge from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ and others. Abū ʿĪsā said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān is the son of Ḥabīb b. Ardak al-Madanī, and Ibn Māhak, in my view, is Yūsuf b. Māhak. Report a problem

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What scholars said about it

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• al-Tirmidhi

  هذا حديث حسن غريب

  machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1234
• al-Tirmidhi

  حديث حسن غريب

  machine translationA good (ḥasan), strange (gharīb) hadith. Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1234
• al-Tirmidhi

  حسن غريب

  machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1234
• Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim

  صححه

  machine translationHe declared it sound (ṣaḥḥaḥahu). Report a problem

  in جامع الترمذي, p. 1234

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Ibnu Majah 2039ثَلاَثٌ جِدُّهُنَّ جِدٌّ وَهَزْلُهُنَّ جِدٌّ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلاَقُ وَالرَّجْعَةُ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 2194ثَلاَثٌ جِدُّهُنَّ جِدٌّ وَهَزْلُهُنَّ جِدٌّ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلاَقُ وَالرَّجْعَةُ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3284وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: " ثَلَاثٌ جَدُّهُنَّ جَدٌّ وَهَزْلُهُنَّ جَدُّ: النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلَاقُ وَالرِّجْعَةُ ". رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ التِّرْمِذِيُّ: ه

Other narrations of this report

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 18715al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 15100

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Yūsuf b. Māhak

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. Abū Bakr b. Abī ʿĀṣim said: 103 AH. Ibn Ḥajar said: 106 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 110 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ and others said: 113 AH. Also said: 114 AH
   ابْنِ مَاهَكَثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous, but he often narrated with omission of the Companion (irsāl); it is said that he changed (taghayyara) at the end of his life, though this was not frequent in himd. 112 AH, or 114 AH, or 115 AH, or 116 AH, or 117 AH
   عَطَاءٍثقة فقيه ، فاضل لكنه كثير الإرسال ، وقيل : إنه تغير بآخره ، ولم يكثر ذلك منه
   عن
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥabīb

   weak in ḥadīth (layyin al-ḥadīth)d. between 131 AH and 140 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَرْدَكَلين الحديث
   عن
5. 5
   Ḥātim b. Ismāʿīl

   His book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), truthful (ṣadūq) but makes errors (yahim)d. 186 AH or 187 AH
   حَاتِمُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَصحيح الكتاب ، صدوق يهم
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Qutaybah b. Saʿīd

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AH
   قُتَيْبَةُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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