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13 Jumada I 1448 AH

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Bayhaqi 14075 — The marriage and divorce of the polytheists

قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ: إِذَا أَثْبَتَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نِكَاحَ الشِّرْكِ وَأَقَرَّ أَهْلَهُ عَلَيْهِ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ لَمْ يَجُزْ وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ إِلَّا أَنْ يَثْبُتَ طَلَاقُ أَهْلِ الشِّرْكِ.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) affirmed the marriage made in the state of polytheism as valid and kept its people upon it after (accepting) Islam, then, and Allah knows best, nothing is permissible except that the divorce of the people of polytheism also be affirmed as valid."
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الرُّوذْبَارِيُّ، أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ دَاسَةَ، ثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ، ثنا عَنْبَسَةُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي يُونُسُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ قَالَ: قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ شِهَابٍ: أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ بْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَخْبَرَتْهُ " أَنَّ النِّكَاحَ كَانَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ عَلَى أَرْبَعَةِ أَنْحَاءٍ، فَنِكَاحٌ مِنْهَا نِكَاحُ النَّاسِ الْيَوْمَ يَخْطُبُ الرَّجُلُ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ وَلِيَّتَهُ فَيُصْدِقُهَا ثُمَّ يَنْكِحُهَا "، فَذَكَرَ الْحَدِيثَ كَمَا مَضَى أَخْرَجَهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ، وَاحْتَجَّ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ بِأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ رَجَمَ يَهُودِيَّيْنِ زَنَيَا، فَجَعَلَ نِكَاحَهُمَا يُحْصِنُهُمَا، فَكَيْفَ يَذْهَبُ عَلَيْنَا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَا يُحِلُّهَا وَهُوَ يُحْصِنُهَا.
Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Marriage in the Jahiliyyah was of four kinds. One of them is the marriage of people today: a man proposes to the guardian of a woman for her, then pays her dowry and marries her.
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) argued from the fact that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stoned two Jews who had committed adultery, treating their marriage as what made them muhsan (married and so liable to stoning): so how could we hold that it does not make her lawful when it makes her muhsan?
Hadith Reference السنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب النكاح / 14075
Hadith Grading محدثین: صحيح
Hadith Takhrij «صحيح۔ بخاري 5127»

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