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bayhaqi:13654Abū al-Ḥasan al-Raffāʾ > ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad b. Bishr > Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī > Ismāʿīl b. Abū Ūways And ʿĪsá b. Mīnāʾ > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Zinād from his father

[Machine] About the jurists who adhere to the saying of the followers of the people of Al-Madinah, they used to say that a woman cannot legally bind herself in marriage, neither in herself nor in others. And Allah knows best.  

البيهقي:١٣٦٥٤أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الرَّفَّاءُ أنبأ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ بِشْرٍ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ الْقَاضِي ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ وَعِيسَى بْنُ مِينَاءَ قَالَا ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

عَنِ الْفُقَهَاءِ الَّذِينَ يُنْتَهَى إِلَى قَوْلِهِمْ مِنْ تَابِعِي أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ كَانُوا يَقُولُونَ لَا تَعْقِدُ امْرَأَةٌ عُقْدَةَ النِّكَاحِ فِي نَفْسِهَا وَلَا فِي غَيْرِهَا وَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ