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bayhaqi:14995Abū 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:١٤٩٩٥وَأَخْبَرَنَا 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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malik:28-60Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab

marriage, divorce, and setting free."  

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

أَنَّهُ قَالَ ثَلاَثٌ لَيْسَ فِيهِنَّ لَعِبٌ النِّكَاحُ وَالطَّلاَقُ وَالْعِتْقُ  

tabarani:15931Yaḥyá 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:١٥٩٣١حَدَّثَنَا 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»