A man marrying off his mother

Hisham bin Urwah (may Allah have mercy on him) reports from a man that a woman asked her son to get her married. The son disliked this; he went to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and told him the whole matter. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Go, and I will come to you tomorrow. The next day Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came and spoke briefly with that woman, then took her son by the hand and said: Get her married. By the One in whose hand is the soul of Umar! If Hantamah bint Hisham (the mother of Sayyiduna Umar, may Allah be pleased with him) asked me to get her married, I would certainly get her married. So the man got his mother married.

Thabit (may Allah have mercy on him) and Isma'il bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Sayyiduna Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) sent a proposal of marriage to Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her). She said: O Abu Talhah! Do you not know that the deity you worship is merely a piece of wood that grows from the earth, which the Abyssinian of such-and-such tribe carved? Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: Indeed, that is how it is. Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Then why are you not ashamed of it? Accept Islam; your accepting Islam will itself be my dowry. Sayyiduna Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked for time to think, then came and said: I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah and that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah. Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) said to her son Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him): O Anas, get up and marry me to Abu Talhah. So he performed the marriage.