al-Sunan al-Kabīr, Bayhaqī
السنن الكبير للبيهقي
The largest of the series of collection of aḥādīth by Bayhaqī on legal rulings. Full name: al-Sunan al-Kabīr / al-Kubrá (السنن الكبير / السنن الكبرى) (The Large Collection of the Sunnah). Sources: Shamela Book# 7861 for the Arabic text. The English translation is being added by myself and other contributors.
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[Machine] In His saying {And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four...} [An-Nisa 3], regarding the orphans, it is said that they used to marry ten young girls in the times of ignorance and they used to honor the orphans. So, they investigated the matters related to their religion regarding the orphans and they left what they used to marry in the times of ignorance. Allah the Almighty said {And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four...}[An-Nisa 3] and He prohibited them from what they used to marry in the times of ignorance.
فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى {وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا} [النساء 3] فِي الْيَتَامَى قَالَ كَانُوا فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَنْكِحُونَ عَشْرًا مِنَ النِّسَاءِ الْأَيَامَى وَكَانُوا يُعَظِّمُونَ شَأْنَ الْيَتِيمِ فَتَفَقَّدُوا أَمْرَ دِينِهِمْ بِشَأْنِ الْيَتَامَى وَتَرَكُوا مَا كَانُوا يَنْكِحُونَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى {وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا فِي الْيَتَامَى فَانْكِحُوا مَا طَابَ لَكُمْ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ مَثْنَى وَثُلَاثَ وَرُبَاعَ} [النساء 3] وَنَهَاهُمْ عَمَّا كَانُوا يَنْكِحُونَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ