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bukhari:1801Muslim b. Ibrāhīm > Shuʿbah > Muḥārib > Jābir

The Prophet ﷺ forbade going to one's family at night (on arrival from a journey).  

البخاري:١٨٠١حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ مُحَارِبٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ ؓ قَالَ

نَهَى النَّبِيُّ ﷺ أَنْ يَطْرُقَ أَهْلَهُ لَيْلاً  


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ahmad:14327Naṣr b. Bāb > Ḥajjāj > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh al-Anṣārī

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade that a man should come to his family like (an unexpected) night visitor doubting their fidelity and spying into their lapses. (Using translation from Muslim 715ab)   

أحمد:١٤٣٢٧حَدَّثَنَا نَصْرُ بْنُ بَابٍ عَنْ حَجَّاجٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ

أَنَّهُ قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ أَنْ يَطْرُقَ الرَّجُلُ أَهْلَهُ لَيْلًا  

tabarani:14092[Chain 1] ʿUbayd b. Ghannām And Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth al-Kūfī > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah [Chain 2] al-Ḥusayn b. Isḥāq al-Tustarī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Khālid al-Raqqī > Muʿāwiyah b. Hishām > Sufyān > Ḥumayd al-Aʿraj > Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm > Abū Salamah > ʿAbdullāh b. Rawāḥah

[Machine] "That the Prophet ﷺ forbade a man from entering his home at night."  

الطبراني:١٤٠٩٢حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ وَحَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ الْكُوفِيُّ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ التُّسْتَرِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الرَّقِّيُّ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاوِيَةُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ رَوَاحَةَ

«أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ نَهَى أَنْ يَطْرُقَ الرَّجُلُ أَهْلَهُ لَيْلًا»