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bayhaqi:13997Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb > al-Rabīʿ > al-Shāfiʿī > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > ʿAmr > Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ > Lā Yaṣluḥ Nikāḥ al-Imāʾ al-Yawm

[Machine] Because he finds freedom in length.  

البيهقي:١٣٩٩٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ أنبأ الرَّبِيعُ أنبأ الشَّافِعِيُّ أنبأ سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ عَمْرٍو عَنْ أَبِي الشَّعْثَاءِ قَالَ لَا يَصْلُحُ نِكَاحُ الْإِمَاءِ الْيَوْمَ

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