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1114. Sahl bin Sa'd As-Sā'idī narrated that a woman came to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and said: "I present myself to you (for marriage)." So she stood for a long time. Then a man said: "O Messenger of Allāh! Marry her to me if you have no need of her." So he said: "Do you have anything to give her as a dowry?" He said: "I have nothing except this Izār." So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "If you give her your Izār then you will have no Izār, so search for something." He said: "I did not find anything." He said: "Search for something, even if it is just an iron ring.” He said: So he searched but he did not find anything. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Do you have any Qur’ān (memorized)?” He said: “Yes. This Sūrat and that Sūrat” and he named the Sūrat. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “I marry her to you for what you have (memorized) of the Qur’ān.” (Ṣaḥīḥ) (Abū ‘Eisā said:) This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. Ash-Shāfi‘ī followed this Hadīth, he said: “If he does not have anything to give to her, and he marries her for a Sūrat of the Qur’ān, then the marriage is acceptable and he is to teach her the Sūrat of the Qur’ān.” Some of the people of knowledge said that the marriage is allowed if he gives her a dowry of its like. This is the saying of the people of Al-Kūfah, Aḥmad, and Ishāq.