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Mentioning The Command Of The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺ Concerning Marriage, His Wives And What Allāh, The Mighty And Sublime, Permitted To His Prophet When It Is Forbidden To Other People, Because Of His Virtue And High Status

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Darussalam · Volume 4

26. The Book Of Marriage

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الحديث: 3199 ¦ الجزء: 6 ¦ الصفحة: 54

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3201. It was narrated that 'Āishah said: "I used to feel jealous of those (women) who offered themselves (in marriage) to the Prophet ﷺ and I said: 'Would a free woman offer herself?' Then Allāh, the Mighty and Sublime, revealed: 'You can postpone whom you will of them, and you may receive whom you will.'[1] I said: 'By Allāh, I see that your Lord is quick to respond to your wishes.'" (Sahih)

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3199 - أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ الْمُخَرَّمِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: كُنْتُ أَغَارُ عَلَى اللَّاتِي وَهَبْنَ أَنْفُسَهُنَّ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَأَقُولُ: أَوَتَهَبَ الْحُرَّةُ نَفْسَهَا، فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: {تُرْجِي مَنْ تَشَاءُ مِنْهُنَّ وَتُؤْوِي إِلَيْكَ مَنْ تَشَاءُ} [الأحزاب: 51] قُلْتُ: «وَاللَّهِ مَا أَرَى رَبَّكَ إِلَّا يُسَارِعُ لَكَ فِي هَوَاكَ»

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    [1] Al-Ahzâb 33:51.

Commentary

Allâh, Most High, had made it permissible for the Prophet ﷺ, that if any believing emigrant woman offers herself to Allâh's Messenger ﷺ to contract marriage, he could marry her without her guardians; because in the first place, the guardians of the Emigrant women were disbelievers. Their guardianship, therefore, stood annulled. Secondly, in the event of the absence of genealogical guardians, he was their legal guardian on account of him being the ruler. Therefore, in the event of a woman's offering herself, the Prophet's ﷺ marriage with her fulfilled all the prerequisites or conditions. But Allâh's Messenger ﷺ did not take any such woman in marriage, who had offered herself on her own, so that no idle good-for-nothing person could make any accusation, although it was lawful for the Prophet ﷺ according to the rule of the Divine law; from every dimension, legal as well as moral.