Sunan al-Nasa'i — The Book of Marriage

(Another chain) with a similar narration.

“A man among us married a woman, but he did not name a dowry for her, and he did not have intercourse with her before he died.” ‘Abdullah said: ‘Since I left the Messenger of Allah I have never been asked a more difficult question than this. Go to someone else.’ They kept coming to him for a month, then at the end of that they said: ‘Who shall we ask if we do not ask you? You are one of the most prominent Companions of Muhammad in this land and we cannot find anyone else.’ He said: ‘I will say what I think, and if it is correct then it is from Allah alone, with no partner, and if it is wrong then it is from me and from the Shaitan, and Allah and His Messenger have nothing to do with it. I think she should be given a dowry like that of her peers and no less, with no injustice, and she may inherit from him, and she has to observe the ‘Iddah, four months and ten days.'” He said: “And that was heard by some people from Ashja’, who stood up and said: ‘We bear witness that you have passed the same judgment as the Messenger of Allah did concerning a woman from among us who was called Birwa’ bint Washiq.'” He said: “Abdullah was never seen looking so happy as he did on that day, except with having accepted Islam.”

“I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, we used to offer sacrifices during the Jahiliyyah in Rajab, and eat of (their meat) and offer some to those who came to us.’ The Messenger of Allah said: ‘There is nothing wrong with that.”‘ (One of the narrators) Waki bin ‘Udus said: “I will not leave it.”

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If anyone has a riding beast which carries him to where he can get sufficient food, he should keep the fast of Ramadan wherever he is when it comes.

The Prophet (ﷺ) ordered that the skins of the animals which had died a natural death should be used when they are tanned.

Receive my teachings, receive my teachings. Allah has appointed a way for those women. If the parties have been married, they shall receive a hundred lashes and stoned to death. If the parties are unmarried, they shall receive a hundred lashes and banished for a year.

Habib ibn Salim said: A man called AbdurRahman ibn Hunayn had intercourse with his wife’s slave-girl. The matter was brought to an-Nu’man ibn Bashir who was the Governor of Kufah. He said: I shall decide between you in accordance with the decision of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). If she made her lawful for you, I shall flog you one hundred lashes. If she did not make her lawful for you, I shall stone you to death. So they found that she had made her lawful for him. He, therefore, flogged him one hundred lashes. Qatadah said: I wrote to Habib b. Salim; so he wrote this (tradition) to me.

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: about a man who had (unlawful) intercourse with his wife’s slave girl: If she made her lawful for him, he will be flogged one hundred lashes; if she did not make her lawful for him, I shall stone him.

(Another chain) with similar.

“Asma’ bint ‘Umais gave birth to Muhammad bin Abi Bakr and sent word to the Prophet (ﷺ). He told her to take a bath, fasten a cloth around her private part and begin the Talbiyah.”

“We went out with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to Makkah, and I heard him say: ‘Labbaika ‘Umratan wa hajjatan .’”