# Sunan Abi Dawud - Divorce (Kitab Al-Talaq)

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**1 hadith**

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## Hadith #2213

**Book:** Divorce (Kitab Al-Talaq) | **Narrator(s):** Abdullah bin Idris bin Yazid al-Audi عبد الله بن إدريس بن يزيد الأودي, al-Hasan bin 'Ali al-Halwani الحسن بن علي الخلال الحلواني, Ibn Ishaq محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار‎, Ma'mr bin 'Abdullah معمر بن عبد الله بن حنظلة, Yahya bin Aadm bin Sulaiman يحيى بن آدم بن سليمان, Yusuf bin 'Abdullah bin Salam | **Grade:** Hasan

I was a man who was more given than others to sexual intercourse with women. When the month of Ramadan came, I feared lest I should have intercourse with my wife, and this evil should remain with me till the morning. So I made my wife like my mother’s back to me till the end of Ramadan. But one night when she was waiting upon me, something of her was revealed. Suddenly I jumped upon her. When the morning came I went to my people and informed them about this matter.
I said: Go along with me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).
They said: No, by Allah. So I went to the Prophet (peace be upon him and informed him of the matter.
He said: Have you really committed it, Salamah? I said: I committed it twice, Messenger of Allah. I am content with the Commandment of Allah, the Exalted; so take a decision about me according to what Allah has shown you.
He said: Free a slave. I said: By Him Who sent you with truth, I do not possess a neck other than this: and I struck the surface of my neck.
He said: Then fast two consecutive months. I said: Whatever I suffered is due to fasting.
He said: Feed sixty poor people with a wasq of dates.
I said: By Him Who sent you with truth, we passed the night hungry; there was no food in our house.
He said: Then go to the collector of sadaqah of Banu Zurayq; he must give it to you. Then feed sixty poor people with a wasq of dates; and you and your family eat the remaining dates. Then I came back to my people, and said (to them): I found with you poverty and bad opinion; and I found with the Prophet (ﷺ) prosperity and good opinion. He has commanded me to give alms to you.
Ibn al-Ala’ added: Ibn Idris said: Bayadah is a sub-clan of Banu Zurayq.

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