hadith 8564–9729

Al-Sha'bi narrates through Masruq from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "Divorce is determined by the men, and the waiting period by the women."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "If a slave woman is freed while married to a slave (husband), and she does not know that she has the choice (to annul the marriage), or she is not given the choice until her husband is also freed, or he dies, or she herself dies, then they inherit from each other."

Abu al-Kanud narrates from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The example of one who frees his concubine and then marries her is like that of one who dedicates his sacrificial camel and then rides it."

Ibrahim narrates from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning a slave woman who is sold while she has a husband that he said: "Her sale is her divorce."

Ibrahim narrates from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "Her sale is her divorce."

Zayd bin Wahb (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A man among us died and left behind his umm walad (a slave woman who had borne him a child), and al-Walid bin Uqbah wanted to sell her to pay his debt. We came to Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and found him praying, so we waited until he finished his prayer, then mentioned this to him. He said: "If you must do so, then count her in the share of her child."

A shaykh narrates from his father: Sayyiduna Jarir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and complained to him about the trouble he faced from women. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We feel the same, so much so that when I want to go out for some need, it is said to me: You only go to look at the girls of such-and-such tribe. At that, Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Has it not reached you that Sayyiduna Ibrahim (peace be upon him) complained to Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, about the sharpness of Sayyidah Sarah's temper, and he was told: She was created from a rib, so live with her as she is, as long as you do not see in her anything disgraceful in her religion." At this, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Allah has filled the space between your ribs with abundant knowledge."

Ibrahim narrated that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said concerning an unmarried man who commits fornication with an unmarried woman: "Both are to be given a hundred lashes each and banished for one year."

Amir bin Matar al-Shaybani narrated that Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said concerning a man who has intercourse with his wife's slave woman: "If he forced her, she becomes free, and he must pay compensation of a slave woman like her; and if the slave woman went along with him willingly, the man shall keep her himself and pay compensation of a slave woman like her."

Ma'bad and Ubayd (the sons of Imran bin Dhuhl) said: A man was brought to Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: I have committed adultery. He said: "Then, if you are married, we will stone you." The people said: He only had (intercourse) with his wife's slave woman. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If you forced her, then free her, and give your wife a slave woman in her place." He said: By Allah, I forced her and beat her too. So he did not stone him; rather, he gave an order, and he was beaten with less than the prescribed punishment (hadd).

Al-Sha'bi narrated that Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) held that (in this case) he was liable neither to the prescribed punishment (hadd) nor to any compensation.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "In this Ummah it is not lawful (during the prescribed punishment) to strip a person naked, to stretch him out, to put a collar on him, or to put him in fetters."

Ibrahim narrated that Ma'qil bin Muqarrin al-Muzani came to Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: A slave woman of mine has committed fornication. He said: "Give her fifty lashes." He said: She has no husband. He said: "Her Islam is her ihsan (chaste status)."

It is narrated from Amr bin Shurahbil (may Allah have mercy on him) that Ma'qil bin Muqarrin came to Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: He has made the bed unlawful (for himself). Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O you who believe, do not make unlawful the good things that Allah has made lawful for you" [Surah al-Ma'idah: 87]; (its expiation is that) you free a slave. Then he said: My slave stole a cloak from my (other) slave. He said: "Your property has been stolen from your own property (the hand will not be cut for this)." Then he said: My slave woman has committed fornication. He said: "Then give her lashes." He said: She is not married. He said: "Her Islam is her ihsan (chaste status)."

It is narrated from Hammam bin al-Harith (may Allah have mercy on him) that Ibn Muqarrin asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: O Abu Abd al-Rahman! I have sworn that I will not sleep on my bed for a year. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) recited this verse: "O you who believe, do not make unlawful the good things that Allah has made lawful, and do not transgress; indeed, Allah does not love the transgressors" [Surah al-Ma'idah: 87]; make expiation for your oath and sleep on your bed. He said: I am wealthy. He said: (Then) free a slave. Then he said: My slave stole the cloak of my (other) slave. He said: "Your property has been stolen from your own property", meaning the hand will not be cut for this. Then he said: My slave woman has committed fornication. He said: Give her lashes. He said: She is not married. He said: "Her Islam is her ihsan (chaste status)."

Abd al-Rahman (the father of al-Qasim) narrated: A man was brought to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) who had been found with a woman under a single quilt. He gave each of them forty lashes and made them both stand before the people. The woman's family and the man's family went to Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) and complained to him. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him): "What are these people saying?" He said: "I did that." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Did you see it yourself?" He said: "Yes." The narrator said: So they began saying: "We came to him to get our right, and here he (Umar) is asking him himself!"

Al-Qasim bin Abd al-Rahman narrated that Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Ward off the hudud punishments and killing from the servants of Allah as far as you are able."

Abd al-Karim narrated: I was informed about Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) that they said, concerning a virgin who is forced (into fornication): "The virgin is owed compensation equal to the dowry of one of the women of her standing, and the previously married woman is owed the like of the dowry of one like her."

Abd al-Karim narrated that Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) said concerning a slave girl who is forced: "If she was a virgin, the compensation is one tenth of her price, and if she was previously married, it is one twentieth of her price."

Mujahid narrated from Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) that they said: "Breastfeeding, whether little or much, makes (marriage) unlawful."

Al-Nakha'i narrated that Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) said concerning breastfeeding: "Little of it and much of it both make (marriage) unlawful."

Ibrahim narrated that Sayyiduna Umar and Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "A woman who has been divorced three times is entitled to both housing and maintenance."

Abu Ishaq narrated: I asked Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid: "When did Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) set out from Muzdalifah?" He said: "At the time when people depart after the Fajr prayer once the light has spread."

Alqamah narrated that Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) sent a sacrificial animal with him and said: "You and your companions eat one third, give one third in charity, and send one third to the family of my brother Utbah." Sufyan was asked: "Was it a voluntary sacrifice?" He said: "Yes."

Tariq bin Shihab narrated: I asked Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) about a woman who wanted to combine Umrah with her Hajj. He said: "Have you not heard Allah's saying: 'The Hajj is (in) well-known months' [Surah al-Baqarah: 197]? I regard these (months) as nothing but the months of Hajj."

Husayn bin Qabisah narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The impotent man (one unable to have intercourse) is to be given a respite of one year; if he consummates (the marriage) with her, well and good; otherwise they are to be separated."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The impotent man is to be given a respite of one year."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "The impotent man is to be given a respite of one year; if he reaches her, well and good; otherwise they are to be separated, and the woman is to receive the dowry."

Abd al-Karim narrated that Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Whoever divorces in jest or marries in jest, it takes effect."

Amir, Masruq and Ibrahim al-Nakha'i narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he used to say: "The master's intercourse with a slave girl does not make her lawful for her (former) husband, until she marries another husband."

Qatadah narrated that Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has forbidden twelve women, and I dislike twelve: a slave girl and her mother (kept together), two sisters kept together, a slave girl with whom your father has had intercourse, a slave girl with whom your son has had intercourse, a slave girl who has committed fornication, a slave girl who is in the waiting period ('iddah) of someone else, a slave girl who has a husband, your idolatrous slave girl, and your paternal aunt and your maternal aunt through breastfeeding."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he gave (the narrator) nabidh to drink from a green earthenware jar. Abu Wa'il said: "I have seen that jar."

Umm Abi Ubaydah narrated: I used to prepare nabidh for Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) in a green earthenware jar, and he would look at it and drink from it.

Alqamah bin Qays (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) was in Syria, and the people said to him: "Recite (the Qur'an) to us." So he recited Surah Yusuf to us. A man among the gathering said: "Was it revealed like this?" Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Woe to you! I recited it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: 'You recited well.'" Then, while he was arguing further with him, he noticed the smell of wine on him. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You drink filth (wine) and you also deny the Qur'an! I will not rise from here until the prescribed punishment (hadd) is carried out on you."

Alqamah narrated that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I recited (the Qur'an) in Hims, and a man said: "It was not revealed like this." I went close to him and noticed the smell of wine on him, so I said: "You deny the truth and drink filth! By Allah, this is exactly how the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught it to me. I will not leave you until I carry out the prescribed punishment (hadd) on you." The narrator said: So he carried out the prescribed punishment on him.

Abu Wa'il narrated: A man among us called Khuthaym bin Adda' suffered from a stomach ailment, and 'sakar' (an intoxicating drink) was steeped for him. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has not placed your cure in what He has made unlawful for you."

A similar narration is reported from Abu Wa'il. Ma'mar said: "'Sakar' is made from dates, and something else is mixed with it."

Abu Wa'il narrated: A man among us fell ill, and 'sakar' was prescribed for him. So we came to Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) and asked him, and he said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has not placed your cure in what He has made unlawful for you."

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Do not give your children (intoxicants) to drink; they were born upon the natural disposition (fitrah). Would you give them to drink what is not lawful for them? Their sin will be upon the one who gave it to them to drink, for Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has not placed your cure in what He has made unlawful for you."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "Whoever falls from the mountain tops, whoever is eaten by wild beasts, and whoever drowns in the seas, they are martyrs in the sight of Allah."