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1532. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Whoever swears [about an oath] and says: 'If Allāh wills (Inshā' Allāh)', then he will not have broken it." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] I asked Muḥammad bin Ismā'īl about this Hadīth, so he said: "This Hadīth is a mistake, 'Abdur-Razzāq made the mistake of abbreviating it from the narration of Ma'mar, from Ibn Tāwūs, from his father, from Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ who said: 'Indeed Sulaimān bin Dāwūd, peace be upon him, said: "Tonight I will sleep with seventy women, each woman giving birth to a boy." So he slept with them, but no one woman among them gave
birth except for a woman who gave birth to half a boy.’ So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: ‘If he had said: “If Allāh wills” (Inshā’-Allāh) then it would have been as he said.”
This is how it was reported from ‘Abdur-Razzāq, from Ma’mar, from Ibn Tāwūs, from his father with this Hadīth in its entirety, and he said: “Seventy women.”
This Hadīth has been reported through more than one route from Abū Hurairah, from the Prophet ﷺ, that he said: “Sulaimān bin Dāwūd said: ‘Tonight I shall sleep with one-hundred women.’”
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Commentary
If someone says that he will do this thing, and adds the words Inshā’-Allāh, and later on the work is not done, his oath will not be considered broken, and he will not have to pay any expiation for it. The Prophet ﷺ had been informed by Revelation that if Sulaimān had added the words of Inshā’-Allāh to his oath, his desire would have been granted, it means that he would not have failed in fulfilling his desire. This also indicates the permissibility for Sulaimān to have more than four wives at a time, which is prohibited in the Sharī‘ah of Muḥammad ﷺ.
