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1113. ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Āmr bin Rabī‘ah narrated from his father: “A woman from Banū Fazārah was married for (the dowry of) two sandals. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said to her: ‘Do you approve of (exchanging) yourself and your wealth for two sandals?’ She said: ‘Yes.’” He said: “So he permitted it.” (Da’if)
(He said:) There are narrations on this topic from ‘Umar, Abū Hurairah, Suhail bin Sa’d, Abū Sa’eed, Anas, ‘Āishah, Jābir, and Abū Ḥadrad Al-Aslami.
(Abū ‘Eisā said:) The Hadīth of ‘Āmir bin Rabī‘ah is a Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
The people of knowledge disagreed over the dowry. Some of them said that the dowry is whatever (meaning the two parties in the marriage contract) agreed to. This is the saying of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, Ash-Shāfi'i, Aḥmad, and Ishāq.
Mālik bin Anas said: "The dowry is not to be less than four Dīnār." Some of the people of Al-Kūfah said that the dowry is not to be less than ten Dirham.
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Commentary
The Prophet ﷺ has not prescribed the amount of dowry, but for most of his wives the amount of dowry was five hundred Dirham. People fixed varied amounts as a dowry and the Prophet ﷺ did not stop them by fixing less or higher amounts. An-Najāshī paid four thousand Dīnār on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ as the dowry of Umm Ḥābibah. The dowry is not only an amount that is to be fixed, but it is to be paid to the wife and its payment is an obligation.
