English translation
3729. Narrated Al-Miswar bin Makhrama: 'Alī demanded the hand of the daughter of Abū Jahl. Fāṭima heard of this and went to Allāh's Messenger ﷺ saying, "Your people think that you do not become angry for the sake of your daughters as 'Alī is now going to marry the daughter of Abū Jahl." On that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ got up and after his recitation of Tashahhud(1) I heard him saying, "Then after! I married one of my daughters to Abū Al-'Ās bin Ar-Rabī' (the husband of Zainab, the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ) before Islām and whenever he spoke to me, he spoke the truth. No doubt, Fāṭima is a part of me, I hate to see her being troubled. By Allāh, the daughter of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and the daughter of Allāh's enemy cannot be the wives of one man." So 'Alī gave up that engagement. Al-Miswar further said: "I heard the Prophet ﷺ talking and he mentioned a son-in-law of his belonging to the tribe of Banī 'Abd-Shams. He praised him highly concerning his relationship and said (whenever) he spoke to me, he spoke the truth, and whenever he promised me, he fulfilled his promise."
