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abudawud:2173ʿUthmān b. Abū Shaybah > al-Faḍl b. Dukayn > Zuhayr > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir said “A man from the Ansar came to the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ and said “I have a slave girl and I have intercourse with her. But I dislike her to conceive. He replied “Withdraw your penis from her if you wish for what is decreed for her will come to her.” After a time the man came to him and said “The girl has become pregnant”. He said “I told you that what was decreed for her would come to her.”  

أبو داود:٢١٧٣حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً أَطُوفُ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ فَقَالَ اعْزِلْ عَنْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا قَالَ فَلَبِثَ الرَّجُلُ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْجَارِيَةَ قَدْ حَمَلَتْ قَالَ قَدْ أَخْبَرْتُكَ أَنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا  


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Collected by Muslim, Ibn Mājah, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Bayhaqī
muslim:1439aAḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yūnus > Zuhayr > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

I have a slave-girl who is our servant and she carries water for us and I have intercourse with her, but I do not want her to conceive. He said: Practise 'azl, if you so like, but what is decreed for her will come to her. The person stayed back (for some time) and then came and said: The girl has become pregnant, whereupon he said: I told you what was decreed for her would come to her.  

مسلم:١٤٣٩aحَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يُونُسَ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

أَنَّ رَجُلاً أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً هِيَ خَادِمُنَا وَسَانِيَتُنَا وَأَنَا أَطُوفُ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ فَقَالَ اعْزِلْ عَنْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا فَلَبِثَ الرَّجُلُ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْجَارِيَةَ قَدْ حَبِلَتْ فَقَالَ قَدْ أَخْبَرْتُكَ أَنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا  

ibnmajah:89ʿAlī b. Muḥammad > Khālī Yaʿlá > al-Aʿmash > Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd > Jābir

"A man from among the Ansar came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, I have a slave girl. Should I do 'Azl (coitus interruptus) with her?' He said 'Whatever is decreed for her shall come to her." He (the Ansari) came to him later on and said: "The slave girl has become pregnant." The Prophet ﷺ said: "Nothing is decreed for a person but it will surely come to pass."  

ابن ماجة:٨٩حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِي يَعْلَى عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً أَعْزِلُ عَنْهَا قَالَ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا فَأَتَاهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ قَدْ حَمَلَتِ الْجَارِيَةُ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَا قُدِّرَ لِنَفْسٍ شَىْءٌ إِلاَّ هِيَ كَائِنَةٌ  

ahmad:14346Hāshim > Zuhayr > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir said “A man from the Ansar came to the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ and said “I have a slave girl and I have intercourse with her. But I dislike her to conceive. He replied “Withdraw your penis from her if you wish for what is decreed for her will come to her.” After a time the man came to him and said “The girl has become pregnant”. He said “I told you that what was decreed for her would come to her.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2173)  

أحمد:١٤٣٤٦حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمٌ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً وَهِيَ خَادِمُنَا وَسَانيَتُنَا أَطُوفُ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ قَالَ اعْزِلْ عَنْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا قَالَ فَلَبِثَ الرَّجُلُ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْجَارِيَةَ قَدْ حَمَلَتْ قَالَ قَدْ أَخْبَرْتُكَ أَنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا  

ahmad:15140Ḥasan > Zuhayr > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

I have a slave-girl who is our servant and she carries water for us and I have intercourse with her, but I do not want her to conceive. He said: Practise 'azl, if you so like, but what is decreed for her will come to her. The person stayed back (for some time) and then came and said: The girl has become pregnant, whereupon he said: I told you what was decreed for her would come to her. (Using translation from Muslim 1439a)  

أحمد:١٥١٤٠حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً وَهِيَ خَادِمُنَا وَسَانِيَتُنَا أَطُوفُ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ فَقَالَ اعْزِلْ عَنْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا قَال فَلَبِثَ الرَّجُلُ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْجَارِيَةَ قَدْ حَمَلَتْ قَالَ قَدْ أَخْبَرْتُكَ أَنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا  

ibnhibban:4194Sulaymān b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār Bi-al-Baṣrah > ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Ghiyāth > Abū ʿAwānah > Sulaymān al-Aʿmash > Sālim b. Abū al-Jaʿd > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] A man from the Ansar came to the Messenger of Allahﷺ and said, "I have a slave girl and I have separated from her." The Messenger of Allahﷺ said, "She will have what has been decreed for her." Then he came to him again and said, "She has become pregnant." The Messenger of Allahﷺ said, "Allah has not decreed the existence of a soul that comes out except that it will be created." I mentioned this to Ibrahim and he said, "It was said, if the sperm that was decreed for the child was placed on a rock, it would still come out."  

ابن حبّان:٤١٩٤أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْعَطَّارُ بِالْبَصْرَةِ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الْوَاحِدِ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ سَالِمِ بْنِ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنَ الْأَنْصَارِ جَاءَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ عِنْدِي جَارِيَةً وَأَنَا أَعْزِلُ عَنْهَا فَقَالَ ﷺ «إِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا» ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ إِنَّهَا قَدْ حَمَلَتْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «مَا قَدَّرَ اللَّهُ نَسَمَةً تَخْرُجُ إِلَّا هِيَ كَائِنَةٌ» فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِإِبْرَاهِيمَ فَقَالَ كَانَ يُقَالُ لَوْ أَنَّ النُّطْفَةَ الَّتِي قُدِّرَ مِنْهَا الْوَلَدُ وُضِعَتْ عَلَى صَخْرَةٍ لَأَخْرَجَتْ «  

bayhaqi:14305Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdān > Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd al-Ṣaffār > Ismāʿīl b. Isḥāq > Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Yūnus > Zuhayr > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

Jabir said “A man from the Ansar came to the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ and said “I have a slave girl and I have intercourse with her. But I dislike her to conceive. He replied “Withdraw your penis from her if you wish for what is decreed for her will come to her.” After a time the man came to him and said “The girl has become pregnant”. He said “I told you that what was decreed for her would come to her.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2173)   

البيهقي:١٤٣٠٥وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ أنبأ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الصَّفَّارُ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ يُونُسَ ثنا زُهَيْرٌ ثنا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ

أَنَّ رَجُلًا أَتَى النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فَقَالَ إِنَّ لِي جَارِيَةً وَهِيَ خَادِمَتُنَا وَسَانِيَتُنَا وَأَنَا أَطُوفُ عَلَيْهَا وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ أَنْ تَحْمِلَ فَقَالَ اعْزِلْ عَنْهَا إِنْ شِئْتَ فَإِنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا فَلَبِثَ الرَّجُلُ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الْجَارِيَةَ قَدْ حَمَلَتْ فَقَالَ أَخْبَرْتُكَ أَنَّهُ سَيَأْتِيهَا مَا قُدِّرَ لَهَا  

رَوَاهُ مُسْلِمٌ فِي الصَّحِيحِ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ يُونُسَ