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ahmad:3668Ibn Numayr > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh

Ibn Masu’d reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “ A woman should not rub her body directly with the body of another woman so that she describes it to her husband as if he were looking at her.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2150)  

أحمد:٣٦٦٨حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ لِتَنْعَتَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Abū Dāwūd, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī, Suyūṭī
bukhari:5240Muḥammad b. Yūsuf > Sufyān > Manṣūr > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

The Prophet ﷺ said, "A woman should not look at or touch another woman to describe her to her husband in such a way as if he was actually looking at her."  

البخاري:٥٢٤٠حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لاَ تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَتَنْعَتَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

bukhari:5241ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth from my father > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh

The Prophet ﷺ said, "A woman should not look at or touch another woman to describe her to her husband in such a way as if he was actually looking at her."  

البخاري:٥٢٤١حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصِ بْنِ غِيَاثٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي شَقِيقٌ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ لاَ تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَتَنْعَتَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

abudawud:2150Musaddad > Abū ʿAwānah > al-Aʿmash > Abū Wāʾil > Ibn Masʿūd

Ibn Masu’d reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “ A woman should not rub her body directly with the body of another woman so that she describes it to her husband as if he were looking at her.”  

أبو داود:٢١٥٠حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ تُبَاشِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ لِتَنْعَتَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّمَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

tirmidhi:2792Hannād > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq b. Salamah > ʿAbdullāh

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A woman is not to touch a woman such that she can describe her to her husband as if he is looking at her."  

Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
الترمذي:٢٧٩٢حَدَّثَنَا هَنَّادٌ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ شَقِيقِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لاَ تُبَاشِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ حَتَّى تَصِفَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّمَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:3609Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A woman is not to touch a woman such that she can describe her to her husband as if he is looking at her." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2792)  

أحمد:٣٦٠٩حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ حَتَّى تَصِفَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّمَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

ahmad:4229Wakīʿ > al-Aʿmash > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

The Prophet ﷺ said, "A woman should not look at or touch another woman to describe her to her husband in such a way as if he was actually looking at her." (Using translation from Bukhārī 5240)  

أحمد:٤٢٢٩حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ حَدَّثَنَا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا تُبَاشِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ تَنْعَتُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

ahmad:4424Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Sulaymān > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ that he said: "When you are three, do not have a private conversation that excludes the third person, as it will hurt him. And a woman should not describe another woman to her husband as if he is looking at her."  

أحمد:٤٤٢٤حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ قَالَ إِذَا كُنْتُمْ ثَلَاثَةً فَلَا يَتَنَاجَى اثْنَانِ دُونَ صَاحِبِهِمَا فَإِنَّ ذَلِكَ يَحْزُنُهُ وَلَا تُبَاشِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ تَنْعَتُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا  

ibnhibban:4160Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUmarī Bi-al-Mawṣil > Muʿallá b. Mahdī > Ḥammād b. Zayd > ʿĀṣim > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

Ibn Masu’d reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “ A woman should not rub her body directly with the body of another woman so that she describes it to her husband as if he were looking at her.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2150)   

ابن حبّان:٤١٦٠أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ الْعُمَرِيُّ بِالْمَوْصِلِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَلَّى بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ كَأَنَّهَا تَنْعَتُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا أَوْ تَصِفُهَا لِرَجُلٍ كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا»  

ذِكْرُ خَبَرٍ ثَانٍ يُصَرِّحُ بِصِحَّةِ مَا ذَكَرْنَاهُ

ibnhibban:4161ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Azdī > Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Jarīr > Manṣūr > Abū Wāʾil > ʿAbdullāh

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "A woman is not to touch a woman such that she can describe her to her husband as if he is looking at her." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2792)   

ابن حبّان:٤١٦١أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَتَصِفُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا»  

tabarani:10419aʿAbdān b. Aḥmad > Ibrāhīm b. al-Mustamir al-ʿUrūqī > ʿAmr b. ʿĀṣim > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān from his father > ʿĀṣim Ibn Bahdalah > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

[Machine] Narrated by the Prophet, ﷺ , he said, "A woman should not look at another woman, for she may describe her to her husband or another man as if he is looking at her."  

الطبراني:١٠٤١٩aحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُسْتَمِرِّ الْعُرُوقِيُّ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَاصِمٍ ثنا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَاصِمِ ابْنِ بَهْدَلَةَ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ؛ فَإِنَّهَا تَصِفُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا أَوِ الرَّجُلِ كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا»  

tabarani:10419bʿAbdān b. Aḥmad > Ibrāhīm b. al-Mustamir al-ʿUrūqī > ʿAmr b. ʿĀṣim > Muʿtamir b. Sulaymān from his father > ʿĀṣim Ibn Bahdalah > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

[Machine] On the authority of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ , he said, "A woman should not be alone with another woman, for she might describe her to her husband or to a man as if he were looking at her."  

الطبراني:١٠٤١٩bحَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُسْتَمِرِّ الْعُرُوقِيُّ ثنا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَاصِمٍ ثنا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَاصِمِ ابْنِ بَهْدَلَةَ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ؛ فَإِنَّهَا تَصِفُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا أَوِ الرَّجُلِ كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا»  

nasai-kubra:9187Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Jarīr > Manṣūr And ʿĪsá b. Yūnus > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh

Ibn Masu’d reported the Apostle of Allaah ﷺ as saying “ A woman should not rub her body directly with the body of another woman so that she describes it to her husband as if he were looking at her.” (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2150)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٩١٨٧أَخْبَرَنِي إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ وَعِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ كِلَاهُمَا عَنْ شَقِيقٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «لَا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ فَتَصِفَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا»  

bayhaqi:11108Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿAffān al-ʿĀmirī > Ibn Numayr > al-Aʿmash > Shaqīq > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "A woman should not have a private conversation with another woman, and then speak ill of her to her husband as if he is looking at her." This is narrated in Sahih Al-Bukhari from the Hadith of Al-A'mash.  

البيهقي:١١١٠٨أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَفَّانَ الْعَامِرِيُّ ثنا ابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ شَقِيقٍ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَا تُبَاشِرُ الْمَرْأَةُ الْمَرْأَةَ ثُمَّ تَنْعَتُهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا أَخْرَجَاهُ فِي الصَّحِيحِ مِنْ حَدِيثِ الْأَعْمَشِ  

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"لا تُبَاشِرِ الْمَرأَةُ الْمَرأَةَ فَتَنْعَتَهَا لِزَوْجِهَا كَأَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيهَا".  

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