Marriage & Family Law

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Umar (Allah be pleased with him) delivered a speech to us and said: Do not go to extremes in giving women their dower, for if it represented honour in this world and piety in Allah's sight, the one of you...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Hasanah is his mother.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Negus married Umm Habibah daughter of Abu Sufyan to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for a dower of four thousand dirhams. He wrote it to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who accepted it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw the trace of yellow on 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: What is this ? He replied: Messenger of Allah, I have married a woman. He asked: How much dower did you...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone gives as a dower to his wife two handfuls of flour or dates he has made her lawful for him. AbuDawud said: This tradition has been narrated by Abdur Rahman ibn Mahdi, from Salih...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

A woman came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah, I have offered myself to you. When she stood for a long time, a man got up and said: Messenger of Allah, marry her to me...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

How much do you memorize from Qur'an? He said: Surat al-Baqarah or the one that follows it. He said: Stand up and teach her twenty verses: she is your wife.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

This is not lawful for anyone after the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Masruq said on the authority of Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: Abdullah (ibn Mas'ud ) was asked about a man who had married a woman without cohabiting with her or fixing any dower for her till he died. Ibn Mas'ud said: She...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by 'Alqamah on the authority of 'Abd Allah. 'Uthman (b. Abi Shaibah) narrated a similar tradition.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

Abdullah ibn Utbah ibn Mas'ud said: Abdullah ibn Mas'ud was informed of this story of a man. The people continued to visit him for a month or visited him many times (the narrator was not sure). He said: In this...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said to a man: Would you like me to marry you to so-and-so? He said: Yes. He also said to the woman: Would you like me to marry you to so-and-so? She said: Yes. He then married...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) taught us the address in case of some need: Praise be to Allah from Whom we ask help and pardon, and in Whom we take refuge from the evils within ourselves. He whom Allah guides...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) recited the tashahhud....He then narrated the same tradition. In this version after the word "and His Apostle" he added the words: "He has sent him in truth as a bearer of glad tidings and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

On the authority of a man from Banu Sulaim: I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) to marry Umamah daughter of 'Abd al-Muttalib to me. So he married her to me without reciting the tashahhud (i.e. the sermon for marriage).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married me when I was seven years old. The narrator Sulaiman said: or Six years. He had intercourse with me when I was nine years old.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married Umm Salamah, he stayed with her three night, and said: Your people (i.e. clan) are not being humbled for you in my estimation. If you wish I shall stay with you seven nights;...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married Safiyyah, he stayed with her three nights. The narrator 'Uthman added: She was non virgin (previously married). He said: This tradition has been narrated to me by Hushaim, reported by Humaid, and transmitted...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

When a man who has a wife married a virgin he should stay with her seven nights ; if he marries to a woman who has been previously married he should stay with her three nights. (The narrator said:) If...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Marriage (Kitab Al-Nikah)

When Ali married Fatimah, the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him: Give her something. He said: I have nothing with me. He said: Where is your Hutamiyyah (coat of mail).