Darussalam · Volume 3
9. The Chapters On MarriageSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 1858 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 597
Source no. 1858 · Volume 4 · Page 358
Sahih
صحيح، الإرواء (١٧٨٣) ، غاية المرام (٢٢٢) ، صحيح أبي داود (١٧٨٦)
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1858. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “A woman may be married for four things: Her wealth, her lineage, her beauty or for her religion. Choose the religious, may your hands be rubbed with dust (i.e., may you prosper).” (Sahih)
1858 - حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ حَكِيمٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، قَالَ " تُنْكَحُ النِّسَاءُ لِأَرْبَعٍ: لِمَالِهَا، وَلِحَسَبِهَا، وَلِجَمَالِهَا، وَلِدِينِهَا، فَاظْفَرْ بِذَاتِ الدِّينِ، تَرِبَتْ يَدَاكَ "
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The desire of having a good wife or good husband is a good and correct desire, so the procedure of choosing the spouses should be correct. The real reliable standard and procedure is righteousness and fear of Allāh. The righteous wife remains the symbol of honor even in poverty, and in the time of prosperity she does not become arrogant and disrespectful to the husband; the woman from a family of high status is sometimes known to have the bad habit of pride and arrogance. The Hereafter gets better too, because of a righteous wife, and the husband will be better off from all aspects.