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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
bayhaqi:14995 – Abū Aḥmad al-Mihrajānī > Abū Bakr b. Jaʿfar al-Muzakkī > Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Būshanjī > Ibn Bukayr > Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib

[Machine] He used to say that there are three things that are not joking matter: marriage, divorce, and emancipation.  

البيهقي:١٤٩٩٥ – وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ الْمِهْرَجَانِيُّ أنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمُزَكِّي نا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْبُوشَنْجِيُّ نا ابْنُ بُكَيْرٍ نا مَالِكٌ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ

أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ ثَلَاثٌ لَيْسَ فِيهِنَّ لَعِبٌ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلَاقُ وَالْعِتْقُ  

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Collected by Mālik, Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī
malik:28-60 – Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab

marriage, divorce, and setting free."  

مالك:٢٨-٦٠ – وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ ثَلاَثٌ لَيْسَ فِيهِنَّ لَعِبٌ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلاَقُ وَالْعِتْقُ  

tabarani:15931 – Yaḥyá b. ʿUthmān b. Ṣāliḥ from my father > Ibn Lahīʿah > ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Jaʿfar > Ḥanash b. ʿAbdullāh al-Sabaʾī > Faḍālah b. ʿUbayd al-Anṣārī

[Machine] From the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who said, "There are three things in which playing is forbidden: divorce, marriage, and manumission."  

الطبراني:١٥٩٣١ – حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ صَالِحٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي ثنا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ حَنَشِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ السَّبَأِيِّ عَنْ فَضَالَةَ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ

عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «ثَلَاثٌ لَا يَجُوزُ اللَّعِبُ فِيهِنَّ الطَّلَاقُ وَالنِّكَاحُ وَالْعِتْقُ»