Musnad Ahmad — Hadith 24009/13

Yunus narrated to us, Abu Ma’shar narrated to us, from ‘Abd al-Wahhab, from ‘Amr ibn Shurahbil ibn Sa’id ibn Sa’d ibn ‘Ubadah, who reports, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: Sa’d ibn ‘Ubadah was present with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: O Messenger of Allah, if I found a man on my wife’s belly, should I strike him with my sword? He said: “What evidence is clearer than the sword?!” He said: Then he retracted his statement and said: “The Book of Allah and the witnesses.” Sa’d said: O Messenger of Allah, what evidence is clearer than the sword? He said: “The Book of Allah and the witnesses. O assembly of the Ansar, this is your chief whom jealousy has provoked until he opposed the Book of Allah.” A man said: O Messenger of Allah, Sa’d is very jealous, and he never divorced a woman such that any one of us could marry her due to his jealousy. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Sa’d is jealous, and I am more jealous than him, and Allah is more jealous than me.” A man said: Over what does Allah feel jealousy? He said: “Over a man who strives in the way of Allah and someone goes to his family in his absence.”