Marriage & Family Law

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Abu Harrah Al Ruqashi reported on the authority of his uncle” The Prophet (ﷺ) said “If you fear the recalcitrance abandon them in their beds.” The narrator Hammad said “By abandonment he meant abandonment of intercourse.”

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Do not beat Allah's handmaidens, but when Umar came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Women have become emboldened towards their husbands, he (the Prophet) gave permission to beat them. Then many women came round the family of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Jarir said I asked the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) about an accidental glance (on a woman). He (ﷺ) said “Turn your eyes away.”

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: to Ali: Do not give a second look, Ali, (because) while you are not to blame for the first, you have no right to the second.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Ibn Masu’d reported the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) as saying “ A woman should not rub her body directly with the body of another woman so that she describes it to her husband as if he were looking at her.”

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Jabir said “The Prophet (ﷺ) saw a woman so he entered upon Zainab daughter of Jahsh and had intercourse with her. He (ﷺ) then came out and said to his companions and said to them “A woman advances in the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Ibn ‘Abbas said “I did not see anything more resembling to minor sins than what Abu Hurairah reported from the Prophet (ﷺ) who said “Allaah has decreed for the children of Adam a share in adultery, he will get it...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying “ Every child of Adam has his share in adultery. He then narrated the rest of the tradition. This version goes “And the hands commit adultery; their adultery is catching; and the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Hurairah through a different chain of narrators. This version adds “The fornication of ear is hearing.”

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Abu Sa’id Al Khudri said “The Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Abu Al Darda said “The Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) was in a battle. He saw a woman who was nearing the time when she was to deliver a child. “He said “Perhaps the master has intercourse with her.”. They(the people) said...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Abu Sa’id Al Khudri traced to Prophet (ﷺ) the following statement regarding the captives taken at Atwas. There must be no intercourse with pregnant woman till she gives birth to her child or with the one who is not pregnant...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Should I tell you what I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say on the day of Hunayn: It is not lawful for a man who believes in Allah and the last day to water what another has sown with...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Ibn Ishaq through a different chain of narrators. This version has the traditional word “a menstrual course” in the phrase “till she is free from a menstrual course”. This is a misunderstanding...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

If one of you marries a woman or buys a slave, he should say: "O Allah, I ask You for the good in her, and in the disposition You have given her; I take refuge in You from the evil...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying “If anyone who means to have intercourse with his wife says “In the name of Allaah, O Allaah, keep us away from the devil and keep the devil away from what You...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who has intercourse with his wife through her anus is accursed.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Muhammad bin Al Munkadir said I heard Jabir say The Jews used to say “When a man has intercourse with his wife through the vagina, but being on her back the child will have a squint, so the verse came...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Ibn Umar misunderstood (the Qur'anic verse, "So come to your tilth however you will")--may Allah forgive him. The fact is that this clan of the Ansar, who were idolaters, lived in the company of the Jews who were the people...