[Machine] That I asked him how to read it, while I was sitting with him. Then a man came to him and asked him about the man who commits adultery with a woman and then marries her. So he recited to him, "{And it is He who accepts repentance from His servants and pardons misdeeds, and He knows what you do}" [Ash-Shura: 25]. Abu Hazim Al-Hafiz informed us that Abu Al-Fadl ibn Khumayrawayh narrated to us, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Najdah, on the authority of Sa'id ibn Mansur, on the authority of Khalaf ibn Khalifah, on the authority of Abu Janab Yahya ibn Abi Hayyah Al-Kalbi, with this story. And he said, "Does he marry her?" So Abdullah recited the verse to him and said, "Then marry her." And Ibrahim ibn Mujahid narrated from Al-Nakha'i, from Hammad ibn Al-Harith, from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud regarding the man who commits adultery with a woman and then desires to marry her. He said, "There is no harm in that."  

أَنْ أَسْأَلَهُ كَيْفَ أَقْرَؤُهَا فَبَيْنَا أَنَا جَالِسٌ عِنْدَهُ إِذْ أَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَزْنِي بِالْمَرْأَةِ ثُمَّ يَتَزَوَّجُهَا فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِ {وَهُوَ الَّذِي يَقْبَلُ التَّوْبَةَ عَنْ عِبَادِهِ وَيَعْفُو عَنِ السَّيِّئَاتِ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ} [الشورى 25] 13887 وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو حَازِمٍ الْحَافِظُ أنبأ أَبُو الْفَضْلِ بْنُ خُمَيْرَوَيْهِ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ نَجْدَةَ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ ثنا خَلَفُ بْنُ خَلِيفَةَ ثنا أَبُو جَنَابٍ يَحْيَى بْنُ أَبِي حَيَّةَ الْكَلْبِيُّ بِهَذِهِ الْقِصَّةِ وَقَالَ أَيَتَزَوَّجُهَا؟ فَتَلَا عَبْدُ اللهِ الْآيَةَ وَقَالَ لِيَتَزَوَّجْهَا وَرَوَى إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ مُهَاجِرٍ عَنِ النَّخَعِيِّ عَنْ هَمَّامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ فِي الرَّجُلِ يَفْجُرُ بِالْمَرْأَةِ ثُمَّ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَهَا قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ