Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Rabia ibn Abd ar- Rahman say that a slave could marry four women. Malik said, ""This is the best of what I have heard about the matter."" Malik said, ""The slave differs with the muhallil if the slave is given permission by his master for his ex-wife. If his master does not ...

Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab that he had heard that in the time of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, women were becoming muslim in their own lands and they did not do hijra while their husbands were still kafirun although they themselves had become muslim. Among them was the daught...

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, ""Between the Islam of Safwan and the Islam of his wife there was about one month."" Ibn Shihab said, ""We have not heard about any woman doing hijra for Allah and His Messenger while her husband was a kafir abiding in the land of kufr, but that her hijra separated h...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham who was the wife of Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl became muslim on the day of the conquest of Makka, and her husband Ikrima fled from Islam as far as the Yemen. Umm Hakim set out after him until she came to him in the Yemen and she called him...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd at-Tawil from Anas ibn Malik that Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he had a traceof yellow on him. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, asked about it. He told him that he had just be...

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, ""I have heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, held a wedding feast in which there was neither meat nor bread

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""When you are invited to a wedding feast, you must go to it

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibr. Shihab from al-Araj that Abu Hurayra said, ""The worst food is the food of a wedding feast to which the rich are invited and the poor are left out. If anyone rejects an invitation, he has rebelled against Allah and His Messenger

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Talha heard Anas ibn Malik say that a certain tailor invited the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to eat some food which he had prepared. Anas said, ""I went with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, t...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""When you marry a woman or buy a slave-girl, take her by the forelock and ask for baraka. When you buy a camel, take the top of its hump, and seek refuge with Allah from Shaytan

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z-Zubayr al-Makki that somebody asked a man for his sister in marriage and the man mentioned that she had committed fornication. Umar ibn al-Khattab heard about it and he beat the man or almost beat him, and said, ""What did you mean by giving him such information?

Yahya related to me from Malik from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman that al-Qasim ibn Muhammad and Urwa ibn az-Zubayr said that a man who had four wives and then divorced one of them irrevocably, could marry straightaway if he wished, and he did not have to wait for the completion of her idda

Yahya related to me from Malik from Rabia ibn Abd ar-Rahman that al-Qasim ibn Muhammad and Urwa ibn az-Zubayr gave the same judgement to al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik in the year of his arrival in Madina except that al-Qasim ibn Muhammad said that he divorced his wife on various occasions. (i.e. not at one time)

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Said ibn al-Musayyab said, ""There are three things in which there is no jest:marriage, divorce, and setting free

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Rafi ibn Khadij married the daughter of Muhammad ibn Maslama al-Ansari. She was with him until she grew older, and then he married a young girl and preferred the young girl to her. She begged him to divorce her, so he divorced her and then he gave her time until she h...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man said to Abdullah ibn Abbas, ""I have divorced my wife by saying I divorce you a hundred times. What do you think my situation is?"" Ibn Abbas said to him, ""She was divorced from you by three pronouncements, and by the ninety-seven, you have mocked the ayat of...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man came to Abdullah ibn Masud and said, ""I have divorced my wife by saying I divorce you eight times."" Ibn Masud said to him, ""What have people told you?"" He replied, ""I have been told that I have to part absolutely from her."" Ibn Masud said, ""They have sp...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Abu Bakr ibn Hazm thatUmar ibn Abd al-Aziz had asked him what people said about the 'irrevocable' divorce, and Abu Bakr had replied that Aban ibn Uthman had clarified that it was declared only once. Umar ibn Abd al- Aziz said, ""Even if divorce had to be declared ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that Marwan ibn al-Hakam decided that if someone made three pronouncements of divorce, he had divorced his wife irrevocably. Malik said, ""That is what I like best of what I have heard on the subject."" 29.2 Divorce by Euphemistic Statements

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab had heard in a letter from Iraq that a man said to his wife, ""Your rein is on your withers (i.e. you have free rein)."" Umar ibn al-Khattab wrote to his governor to order the man to come to him at Makka at the time of hajj. While Umar was doing ...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Ali ibn Abi Talib used to say that if a man said to his wife, ""You are haram for me,"" it counted as three pronouncements of divorce. Malik said, ""That is the best of what I have heard on the subject

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said that statements like ""I cut myself off from you"",or""You are abandoned"", were considered as three pronouncements of divorce. Malik said that any strong statements such as these or others were considered as three pronouncements of divorce for a woma...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad that a certain man had taken a slave-girl belonging to somebody else as a wife. He said to her people, ""She is your concern,"" and people considered that to be one pronouncement of divorce

Yahya related to me from Malik that he heard Ibn Shihab say that if a man said to his wife, ""You are free of me, and I am free of you, "" it counted as three pronouncements of divorce as if it were an 'irrevocable' divorce. Malik said that if a man made any strong statement such as these to his wife, it counted as thr...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that a man came to Abdullah ibn Umar, and said, ""Abu Abd ar-Rahman! I placed the command of my wife in her hand, and she divorced herself, what do you think?"" Abdullah ibn Umar said, ""I think that it is as she said."" The man said, ""Don't do it, Abu Abd ar-Rahman!"" ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, ""When a man gives a woman command over herself, then the result is as she decides unless he denies it and says that he only meant to give her one divorce and he swears to it - then he has access to her while she is in her idda

Yahya related to me from Malik from Said ibn Sulayman ibn Zayd ibn Thabit that Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit told him that he was sitting with Zayd ibn Thabit when Muhammad ibn Abi Atiq came to him with his eyes brimming with tears. Zayd asked him what the matter was. He said, ""I gave my wife command of herself, and she...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that a man of Thaqif gave his wife command over herself, and she said, ""You are divorced."" He was silent. She said, ""You are divorced."" He said, ""May a stone be in your mouth."" She said, ""You are divorced."" He said, ""May a stone be ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that A'isha, umm al-muminin, proposed to Qurayba bint Abi Umayya on behalf of Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr. They married her to him and her people found fault with Abd ar-Rahman and said, ""We only gave in marriage because of A'isha."" A'isha ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim from his father that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave Hafsa bint Abd arRahman in marriage to al-Mundhir ibn az-Zubayr while Abd ar-Rahman was away in Syria. When Abd ar-Rahman arrived, he said, ""Shall someone l...