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What Has Been Related About Giving The Salām To Women

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Darussalam · Volume 5

40. The Chapters On Seeking Permission And On Manners From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 427

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2697. Asmā' bint Yazīd narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ passed through the Masjid one day, and a group of women were sitting, so he motioned his hand with the Salām – 'Abdul-Ḥamīd (one of the narrators) gestured with his hand. (Hasan) [Abū 'Eīsā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan. Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal said: "There is nothing wrong with the narration of 'Abdul-Ḥamīd bin Bahrām from Shahr bin Hawshab." Muḥammad [bin Ismā'īl] said: "Shahr is Hasan in Hadīth." And he strengthened his case, he said: "Only Ibn 'Awn criticized him. Then he reported from Hilāl bin Abī Zainab from Shahr bin Ḥashab." Abū Dāwūd [Al-Maṣāḥifī Al-Balkhī] narrated to us (he said): "An-Nadr bin Shumail narrated to us that Ibn 'Awn said: 'They stabbed Sharh.'" Abū Dāwūd said: "An-Nadr said: 'They stabbed him – meaning they reviled him.'" And they only reviled him because he worked for the Sulṭān.

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٢٦٩٧ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌سُوَيْدٌ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا ‌عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا ‌عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ بَهْرَامَ ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ ‌شَهْرَ بْنَ حَوْشَبٍ يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ ‌أَسْمَاءَ بِنْتَ يَزِيدَ، تُحَدِّثُ «أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرَّ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ يَوْمًا وَعُصْبَةٌ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ قُعُودٌ، فَأَلْوَى بِيَدِهِ بِالتَّسْلِيمِ» وَأَشَارَ عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بِيَدِهِ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ. قَالَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ حَنْبَلٍ: لَا بَأْسَ بِحَدِيثِ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ بَهْرَامَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ. وَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ: شَهْرٌ حَسَنُ الْحَدِيثِ، وَقَوَّى أَمْرَهُ وَقَالَ: إِنَّمَا تَكَلَّمَ فِيهِ ابْنُ عَوْنٍ، ثُمَّ رَوَى عَنْ هِلَالِ بْنِ أَبِي زَيْنَبَ عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ. حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَوْنٍ قَالَ: إِنَّ شَهْرًا نَزَكُوهُ، قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ: قَالَ النَّضْرُ: نَزَكُوهُ، أَيْ طَعَنُوا فِيهِ، وَإِنَّمَا طَعَنُوا فِيهِ؛ لِأَنَّهُ وَلِيَ أَمْرَ السُّلْطَانِ.

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The Prophet ﷺ gestured along with the words of Salām. It is proven through various Aḥādīth that if there is no danger of Fitnah (temptation, ill-doubt, slander etc.), then a man may say Salām to a woman, or to say Salām to a group of women, or a woman saying Salām to a group of men, provided there is no danger of Fitnah and a risk of being accused.