The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Al Dahhak to the same effect through a different chain of narrators. This version has Allaah prohibited that (practice).
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
A widow cannot be married off by force; it is necessary to obtain her consent, in which there should be explicitness, as will be mentioned in the following chapters.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 2091